Event
Trial of Skilling and Lay
Houston jury trial of Enron’s former chief executive and its founder; verdicts on 25 May 2006.
- Dates
- Jan 2006 – 25 May 2006
Connections 4
involved
- Jeffrey Skilling defendant Primary record 1
- Kenneth Lay defendant Scholarship & press 2
- U.S. Department of Justice prosecution (Enron Task Force) Primary record 1
located in
Timeline 1 date
- Jan 2006 – 25 May 2006 Trial of Skilling and Lay
Proof 2 sources
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United States v. Jeffrey K. Skilling (case page, with the press release of 21 June 2013), U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, 21 Jun 2013.
Primary record
A federal jury found Skilling guilty in Houston on May 25, 2006, of one count of conspiracy, 12 counts of securities fraud, one count of insider trading, and five counts of making false statements to auditors.
The investigation into Enron’s collapse was conducted by the Enron Task Force, a team of federal prosecutors supervised by the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Special Agents from the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation.
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Judge Vacates Kenneth Lay Conviction, CBS News (Associated Press), 17 Oct 2006.
Scholarship & press
Lay was convicted of 10 counts of fraud, conspiracy and lying to banks in two separate cases on May 25.
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