Corporate Corruption
Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling
By Joe Kishore, October 16, 2009
The decision by the US high court to hear the Skilling case indicates that it is considering curtailing use of the “honest services” law to prosecute corporate fraud.
The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism
By Joe Kay, May 29, 2006
The guilty verdicts handed down by a Houston jury last week against former Enron chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling provide an opportunity to evaluate the significance of the company’s rise and...
Former CFO testifies in Enron case
By Joe Kay, March 10, 2006
Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow continued testimony on Thursday in the trial of the company’s former CEO Ken Lay and former president Jeffrey Skilling. Fastow testified that Lay a...
Enron tapes expose blatant criminality of corporate America
By Rafael Azul, June 15, 2004
The recent release of transcripts of taped conversations among Enron electricity traders in the summer of 2001 reveals that company insiders not only knew they were stealing from California and other ...
