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JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a comparison of the Andrew Fastow and Bernard Ebbers corporate fraud cases suggests that the sentences handed down for the two former high-flying executives -...

JURIST Contributing Editor Nancy Rapoport of the University of Houston Law Center says that the recent spate of guilty verdicts and stiff sentences handed out for corporate fraud committed by the erstwhile leaders of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia and other...

Former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday after US District Court Judge Kenneth Hoyt reduced the 10 year prison term he accepted as...

US District Court Judge Ewing Werlein has set either February 5 or September 4, 2007 as the trial date for three former British bankers , known as the Natwest Three, who face fraud charges related to the...

A US magistrate in Houston agreed Tuesday to delay the trial of three former British bankers facing fraud charges related to the Enron scandal so that two of the defendants can hire American lawyers. A trial...

Two British men who face fraud charges in the US related to the Enron scandal are searching for new lawyers, according to papers filed Monday by counsel for a third British man also facing trial. The...

A federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to a $6.6 billion settlement between former Enron shareholders and the three banks accused of helping Enron hide financial shortcomings to deceive investors. Lead plaintiff's attorney...

Jury deliberations in the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling began Wednesday after government prosecutors and defense lawyers finished closing arguments. Lay and Skilling have been charged ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that defense lawyers in recent corporate fraud cases are not seeking to introduce reasonable doubts that might lead a jury to acquit their clients, but in...

Defense lawyers in the Enron fraud trial Monday finished their cross-examination of former Chief Financial Officer and lead government witness Andrew Fastow , bringing to a conclusion his four-day stint on the...