Skilling to seek retrial based on ‘newly discovered evidence’
In a motion for a time extension filed last week, Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked to have until August 17 to submit Skilling’s latest brief. The two-page motion refers to Skilling’s intent to ask for a new trial based on the new evidence but includes no description of what the evidence is. More »
Chesapeake’s employees may be hit hardest by stock’s plunge
Thousands of the embattled natural gas company’s employees have their retirement tied up in Chesapeake stock. More »
High court turns away Skilling appeal
In the matter of Jeff Skilling, the former Enron executive praised for building an innovative energy giant and then vilified for propping it up with bogus accounting, some people think he deserved every day of the 24-year prison sentence he got when convicted of 19 counts of securities fraud and other financial crimes in 2006. More »
Court rejects Skilling appeal again
The Supreme Court has rejected another appeal from Jeffrey Skilling, the ex-CEO of disgraced energy giant Enron. More »
Some say Enron deserves brighter legacy
The name Enron has become shorthand for many things in the 10 years since the company went bankrupt, few of them positive. More »
Enron’s fall foreshadowed 2008 crash
The collapse of Enron was a closely watched and thoroughly documented corporate event, a slow-motion cataclysm chronicled in thousands of articles, dozens of case studies, movies and even a play. More »
Steffy: Why Enron is still with us
Business, like Houston, rarely uses a rearview mirror, so the anniversary of Enron’s bankruptcy filing, 10 years ago today, passes with a whiff of irony. More »
Hers is a picture of survival
In the hours before they were laid off from Enron Corp., Meredith Moore and her colleagues sat by their desks wrapping Christmas presents. More »
Where are the faces of the Enron trial?
Prosecutors brought various criminal charges against about three dozen executives and employees of Enron and firms that did business with it, and the accounting firm that audited its books. More »
Skilling’s fall was nothing short of epic
As Christmas approached in 2001, the contenders for the title Most Hated Man in Houston came from a pretty short list. Not surprisingly, all worked for Enron, the onetime Wall Street darling suddenly staring into the abyss of bankruptcy. More »
Legal cloud starting to lift for Fastow
December will be a watershed month for Andrew Fastow. More »
With nest eggs busted by Enron, workers left in a bind
At their height, shares of Enron sold for as much as $90. By the time the company declared bankruptcy 10 years ago, the stock plummeted to $1 – taking with it the nest eggs of employees who had invested heavily in the company’s shares. More »
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