With this in mind, in the months leading up to Enron's collapse, Lay encouraged employees to buy stock and 'talk up' the idea ...

By 2001, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — foreshadowing its inevitable collapse. Enron didn’t begin as an energy trading company in 1985 when Kenneth Lay founded it. After the U.S ...

HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it ...

Since taking over Enron, Gaydos has ... say he’s serious and the company has filed an application with Texas state regulators to start providing residents with energy. They also hired longtime ...

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced Monday to more than 24 years in prison for his part in accounting practices that led to the company's collapse. His is the latest in a series of ...

Remember Enron, the American energy company that went belly up after it was exposed for perpetrating one of the biggest accounting frauds in history? According to an investment banker who once dug ...

Days before bankrupt energy trader Enron publicly disclosed its financial problems, employees of its auditing firm, Arthur Andersen, were instructed to destroy most of their Enron-related material, ...

The deal was negotiated largely by V&E partner Harry Reasoner of Houston, the firm s former managing partner, and Enron President and Board Chairman John Ray III. Houston’s Vinson & Elkins has ...

Back in the 1990s, Enron Corporation was the darling of Wall Street. The energy company, one of America’s largest, was riding a tide of deregulation, hailed for its innovative use of technology and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on June 24 that former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling received a fair trial in the energy company’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Skilling had asked the court to decide ...