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The Motley Fool
July 8, 2004
Bill Mann |
Lay Surrenders, Pleads Not Guilty It took more than two years for to make a case against the executive who lorded over Enron's collapse that federal prosecutors think will stick.   |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2006
Bill Mann |
The Death of a Salesman How do you eulogize one of the most hated men in America? Ken Lay managed to destroy the wealth of tens of thousands of people and trigger much-needed reforms in how America regulates its public companies. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Anthony Bianco |
Ken Lay's Audacious Ignorance Even if one of America's worst ex-CEOs beats the rap - and he just might - history's verdict will be harsh. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Jane Sasseen |
White-Collar Crime: Who Does Time? Corporate criminals are punished more harshly today than in the '80s, but hands-off executives may still face better odds. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2005
Tom Taulli |
The Scrushy Defense PR, highly paid attorneys, and ignorance: A recipe that worked quite well for HealthSouth's former CEO. The company currently trades on the Pink Sheets at around $5.80 per share. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Lorraine Woellert |
The-Reporter-Did-It-Defense Ken Lay claims the press sped Enron's fall by scaring investors. Does he have a case? |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Maria Bartiromo |
The Ones Who Got Away If the Enron saga has a truth teller, it's Sherron Watkins, the whistleblowing executive who at least tried to do the right thing. Watkins hasn't been shy about speaking to the media or going on the lecture circuit. But her candor here may surprise you. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Julia Homer |
Three Blind Mice Just when you think there is absolutely nothing more to say on the topic of financial scandals, something new happens. Ultimately, bogus numbers don't work. Neither should bogus CEOs. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2004
Bill Mann |
Another Brick in the Enron Wall Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: Enron executive Jeff Skilling. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2007
Michael Hickins |
'Justice is Served' to Nacchio Did the former Qwest CEO miss an opportunity to save himself some jail time? |
Salon.com
January 15, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Ken Lay: "There are no accounting issues" Even as an executive was warning Enron's CEO of impending problems, he was telling the press that all was well... |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2004
Bill Mann |
WorldCom's Ebbers Surrenders WorldCom's CFO finally gives up the goods on the top man in an $11 billion fraud case. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Mike France |
Courtroom Strategies On Trial Recent high-profile verdicts have prosecutors and defense attorneys rewriting their playbooks. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2004
Bill Mann |
A Step Closer to Ken Lay? The first of Enron's top brass may be closing plea bargains with time in the slammer. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Egg On Enron Faces The people who brought about the Enron debacle are slowly starting to pay for their crimes. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2009
David Williamson |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Jeffrey Skilling Jeffrey Skilling, former president of Enron, was convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, and insider trading and forced to serve 292 months, a little over 24 years, in federal prison. What's he up to now? |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: Enron's Ken Lay As Ken Lay's fraud and conspiracy trial begins today in Houston, here is a look back at a January 2000 interview. Read what he said then, and compare it with what we know now. |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
Job Journal
April 9, 2006
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Enron Kept Reality at Bay When Enron's problems first surfaced, Lay and Skilling had an obligation to be candid with everyone around them. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Ken Lay's Startling Youa-Culpa The former Enron CEO blames the media and short sellers for Enron's demise. How convenient. Don't let this dribble provide an excuse for ordinary investors to toss away due diligence in favor of conspiracy theories. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 12, 2004
Martha Lagace |
Enron's Lessons for Managers Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S. Salter. Yet what have we learned? |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Kate O'Sullivan |
The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 7, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Wendy Zellner |
Inside Enron's House of Cards Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald offers the liveliest and probably the best Enron account so far. |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Mark Gimein |
The Skilling Trap Skilling and Lay sacrificed the spirit of the law for the letter. They're not alone. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 21, 2006
Malcolm S. Salter |
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. |
Salon.com
October 8, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
In greed we trusted Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme? |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Kris Frieswick |
What Does Your CEO Really Know? How much do chief executives know about company finances? We asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss's finance IQ. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Enron Still Matters Enron was a catastrophe in the public markets. Individual investors should take a hard look at the trial so they know what happened and how it came to be, with the intent of learning to avoid companies that exhibit the same characteristics in the future. |
U.S. Banker
January 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality... |
InternetNews
March 21, 2005
Tim Gray |
Tightening Honchos' White Collars The WorldCom verdict, along with legislation regulating on corporate accounting practices, has sent a clear signal to company bosses. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Paula Dwyer |
The SEC To Top Execs: Read The Fine Print The Ken Lay criminal indictment has overshadowed the parallel SEC civil lawsuit. But corporate insiders and their attorneys would be wise to give the SEC complaint a close read. |
Salon.com
January 19, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior... |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Where Are the Values? Price and earnings aren't the only values you need to be concerned about. Let's face it, there's no shortage of hubris in the executive suites across the U.S., and we've seen little problems mushroom to become major losers for stockholders. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2005
Suzanne McGee |
Scandal! Corporate governance experts agree that the past two decades have been a particularly fertile period for scandals, generating an abundance of candidates for inclusion in a new series of "Wall Street Most Wanted" playing cards. What motivates the cheaters -- greed, fear or ego? |
BusinessWeek
July 1, 2010
Caroline Winter |
Who Could Gain from a High-Court Ruling The Supreme Court's recent ruling will make it harder to battle white-collar crime. Which jailed execs stand to benefit? |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
The gang that couldn't loot straight The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market. |
Salon.com
February 13, 2002
Ben Fritz |
Fritzkrieg! A Democratic senator lies about Enron to smear Bush... |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: More With Jeff Skilling As the Enron trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continues, here's part 2 of a 2001 interview with Skilling about the company's presence on the Internet as well as his views of the California power shortage. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
I Survived Enron Recovery, setbacks, legal justice, entrepreneurship, even true love: The stories of six rank-and-filers who fled the Enron wreckage. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
France, Zellner & McNamee |
The Case Against Jeff Skilling Enron prosecutors haven't been dragging their feet. The problem is, with few of the ex-CEO's directives in writing, there are no smoking guns |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Lori Calabro |
I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable. |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Eyes on the Wise A mini-jumbo roundup of recent corporate governance gaffes. A million to one shot, doc!... Ken Lay's gifts from beyond the grave... |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Mike France |
Corporate America's New Accountability When companies break the law, the first thing chief executives typically do is plead ignorance. But in a post-Enron world, "I didn't know" won't cut it. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Enron's Kenneth Lay: The Last Road Not Taken Ken Lay could have taken specific action that would have prevented bankruptcy and saved the jobs of thousands of Enron employees. This article compares Lay's choices with those facing Salomon chief executive John Gutfreund a decade earlier... |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Mike France |
Heiress In Handcuffs Lea Fastow is charged with helping husband Andy orchestrate the white-collar crime of the century. Now she could be the key to nailing Enron's top dogs. |
Salon.com
January 24, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Houston under siege Residents of Enron's hometown can't stop comparing the collapse of the energy trader to Sept. 11... |
Salon.com
November 30, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Will Bush be tarnished by Enron's collapse? The crash of his top corporate backer should discredit the president's anti-regulation economic policies, but it's unlikely to lead to reform... |
Salon.com
January 29, 2002
Jake Tapper |
How to be an Enron millionaire According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot... |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2006
Tim Hanson |
Meet the Men Who Fleeced Enron Former Enron workers and investors can be happy that at least a few smart folks stuck it to Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, buying valuable assets on the cheap and building successful companies from what Enron discarded. |
