The sudden collapse of Enron, culminating in what was then the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history on Dec. 2, 2001, changed thousands of lives, damaged investor confidence to the core and made ...

Vinson & Elkins, Enron's former outside law firm, has agreed to pay the company $30 million to settle claims of contributing to the failed energy giant's 2001 collapse by signing off on fraudulent or ...

The Enron collapse has a lot of the elements that made for scandal during Bill Clinton-s Administration: big money, inside access, presidential double-talk, and investigations by Congress. Kenneth Lay ...

HOUSTON — All along, Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and their high-octane lawyers contended that the notion of a prodigious fraud that infected and ultimately took down Enron Corp. was no more real ...

This episode revisits Enron’s collapse and asks whether its tactics would even shock investors in today’s financial climate.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Enron, an energy trading company that collapsed after a massive accounting fraud scheme was revealed. Its 2001 bankruptcy filing was the largest in American history at the ...

He flagged the company’s India-centric body shop model and recent software acquisitions. ・Chanos noted that IBM’s greatest innovations in the 21st century have been in financial engineering, adding ...

A jury convicted four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and a former midlevel Enron Corp. finance executive of conspiracy and fraud Wednesday in the first criminal trial to emerge from Enron’s ...

HOUSTON - Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted Thursday of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud in one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history.

the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, a charity in Houston that cares for more than 50,000 dogs and cats a year. Not only did Enron contribute $200,000 to the group over the past 18 months, but last ...