<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Enron</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/energy/enron?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><description>Enron</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Former Merrill Execs Sentenced]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8069-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8069-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   HOUSTON, April 21  --  Two former Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. executives convicted in Enron's bogus sale of power barges to the brokerage were sentenced Thursday to prison terms far shorter than the punishment sought by the government.]]></description><author> Kristen Hays</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dynegy Settles Shareholders' Suit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57895-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57895-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dynegy Inc., a U.S. power producer that nearly went bankrupt after Enron Corp. collapsed, will pay $468 million to settle shareholder claims that it misled investors by disguising loans as energy trades in 2001.]]></description><author> Bradley Keoun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutors Want Lay to Be Tried Soon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26641-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26641-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal prosecutors yesterday asked a judge to start the bank fraud trial of former Enron Corp. chief executive Kenneth L. Lay no later than June.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chamber Files Brief On Enron Losses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7921-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7921-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has submitted a friend-of-the-court brief essentially arguing for lighter sentences for top Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. officials convicted last year of fraud for their role in helping Enron Corp. improperly meet profit goals.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utility Exposes Enron Greed at Its Core]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61253-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61253-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The small, publicly owned utility that serves Everett, Washington has become a West Coast hero by goring the bankrupt carcass of the disgraced Enron Corp. and spilling buckets of deliciously embarrassing blood.]]></description><author> Blaine Harden</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enron Executives Go on Trial in January]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51885-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51885-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Houston Thursday ordered former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling to stand trial early next year on criminal conspiracy charges, setting the stage for the government's premier business fraud case.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enron Employee Bonuses Win Court Approval]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25588-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25588-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- Enron Corp., the energy trader that filed the second-biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, won court approval to pay as much as $45 million in bonuses to employees who are responsible for winding down the company's operations.]]></description><author> Tom Becker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krispy Kreme Ousts CEO in Turnaround Bid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19514-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. ousted top executive Scott A. Livengood on Tuesday, hoping a turnaround specialist who guided Enron through bankruptcy protection can save another company beset by allegations of corporate deceit.]]></description><author> Paul Nowell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud Cases Focus on Top Executives]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16547-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16547-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The trials of former WorldCom chairman Bernard J. Ebbers and former Tyco chairman L. Dennis Kozlowski get underway this week, beginning a new round of courtroom confrontations over events that helped write the emphatic end to last decade's investment boom.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson and Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former WorldCom Directors Pay $18M]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57696-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57696-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ten former WorldCom directors will personally pay $18 million to compensate for investor losses from an accounting scandal that caused one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Will Hear Andersen Appeal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57805-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57805-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider Arthur Andersen LLP's appeal of the obstruction of justice conviction that pushed the venerable accounting firm into collapse.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Companies Investigate Themselves]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37698-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37698-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite possibly painful outcomes, Enron-style self-initiated internal investigations have become the tool of choice for corporate directors charged with wrongdoing at the companies they oversee.]]></description><author> Kathleen Day  and Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutors Want Trial to Remain in Houston]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34068-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34068-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors Friday urged a judge in Houston to keep the fraud trial of three former Enron Corp. executives in the energy trader's hometown, saying that a fair trial is possible.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stock Sale by Lay's Wife Investigated]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58825-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58825-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors are investigating a stock sale by the wife of former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth L. Lay just days before the Houston energy trader filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2001, according to lawyers involved in the probe.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enron Barge Fraud Cost $13.7 Million]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38336-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38336-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A jury that convicted five former executives from Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. of fraud found yesterday that the crime cost investors $13.7 million, an amount that may result in 12-year prison terms for the defendants.]]></description><author> Laurel Brubaker Calkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASD Files Charges Against H&R Block]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35530-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35530-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The NASD yesterday lodged fraud charges against H&R Block Financial Advisors Inc. for selling $16.4 million of Enron Corp. bonds to investors without warning of risks, shortly before the energy trading company filed for bankruptcy protection.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skilling Lawyers Seek Change of Venue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35535-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35535-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Attorneys for former Enron chief executive cite a toxic atmosphere in which respondents to a recent poll they commissioned called Skilling a "crook," a "pig" and an "economic terrorist."]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enron Fraud Trial Ends In 5 Convictions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23034-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23034-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A jury convicted a former Enron Corp. executive and four ex-Merrill Lynch & Co. officials Wednesday in the first criminal prosecution arising from the accounting fraud that led to the energy trader's collapse.]]></description><author> Laurel Brubaker Calkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Gets Enron, Merrill Lynch Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7928-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7928-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Jurors began deliberations in the trial of six former Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. executives accused of fraud and conspiracy in the energy trader's 1999 sale of three power-generating barges.]]></description><author> Laurel Brubaker Calkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Enron  Fraud Trial Nears End]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3662-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3662-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_business/specials/energy/enron</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:17:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The defendants are accused of helping push through Enron's year-end 1999 sale of interest of barges so the energy company could book a $12 million pretax profit the company needed to meet earnings targets.]]></description><author> Kristen Hays</author></item></channel></rss>