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Calisto Tanzi, the former chief executive of Parmalat, which collapsed five years ago in a fraud dubbed 'Europe's Enron', was given a 10-year sentence by a Milan court yesterday. Mr [...]

Three British bankers who admitted involvement in a Dollars 20m Enron-related fraud are to be sentenced today in Houston, Texas. A judge will rule on whether to accept a deal [...]

Bankers, accountants and lawyers won powerful protection against US investor lawsuits yesterday when the Supreme Court made it more difficult for shareholders to sue third parties for frauds committed by [...]

Bankers, accountants and lawyers won powerful protection against US investor lawsuits yesterday when a Supreme Court ruling made it difficult for shareholders to sue third parties for frauds committed by [...]

The three former NatWest bankers who pleaded guilty last month to an Enron-related fraud are still waiting to hear how much of their 37-month jail sentence will be served in [...]

Three former NatWest bankers yesterday pleaded guilty to a single charge of wire fraud as part of a deal with US prosecutors aimed at drastically reducing their expected prison terms [...]

Three former NatWest bankers last night pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud as part of a deal with US prosecutors aimed at drastically reducing their expected prison terms [...]

Litigation risk is a huge cost of doing business in America, and now things could be about to get much worse - not just for US companies, but for virtually [...]

When things go bad on Wall Street, people start looking for someone with deep pockets to sue. Five years ago, WorldCom and Enron investors turned on the companies' bankers and [...]

LONDON -- This week, the auditingprofession's nightmare scenario moved a little closer to reality. An auditing firm, BDOSeidman, was hit with massive damages that its chiefexecutive told a Florida court [...]

WASHINGTON -- Investors seeking redress from third parties accused of aiding companies to defraud shareholders suffered a blow yesterday when the Bush administration came down against the plaintiffs' bar and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has rejected the pleas of investors and the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and refused to side with shareholders in a Supreme [...]

NEW YORK -- Investor recoveries from American class-action securities lawsuits hit an all-time high last year of nearly Dollars 17.2bn, including a Dollars 6.6bn partial settlement that went to the [...]

NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court yesterday tossed out the main class action lawsuit filed by Enron investors against the defunct energy company's banks and lawyers. The Fifth Circuit [...]

Even in its corporate logo - known as 'the crooked E' - there was always a brazen quality to Enron, the energy giant that collapsed in the most complex and [...]

(From Turkish Daily News) Andrew Fastow, the mastermind behind financial schemes that doomed Enron Corp., was sentenced to six years in prison -- four years less than he had agreed [...]

NEW YORK and HOUSTON -- Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, has accused 10 leading investment banks of helping the now-bankrupt energy group falsify its books in [...]

WASHINGTON and HOUSTON -- A Home Office minister has warned that a 'frenzy of misunderstanding and distortion' whipped up in Britain over the NatWest Three risked further damage to relations [...]

When Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron executives, are sentenced in September for their crimes, legal experts expect the stiffest prison terms permitted. The two former high-fliers were [...]

NEW YORK -- Fraud scandals in corporate America have sent several high-profile executives to federal and state prison in the past two years, including Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz, the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The conviction of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillingis the successful culmination of a legal strategy prosecutors at the Department of Justice have been finely tuning since the day, [...]

HOUSTON and NEW YORK -- Former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of fraud and conspiracy yesterday for their role in the 2001 collapse of the US [...]

HOUSTON -- Jurors began deliberating yesterday after prosecutors closed the government's fraud and conspiracy case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's former chief executives. They urged jurors to return [...]

HOUSTON -- As the first week of the defence case in the Enron trial ended, much expectation surrounded the testimony of Jeffrey Skilling, the company's former chief executive, who is [...]

HOUSTON -- US prosecutors yesterday dropped three charges against Jeffrey Skilling and one charge against Kenneth Lay as they wrapped up two months of testimony in the fraud and conspiracy [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Washington lobbyist who represented a German bank yesterday pleaded guilty to impersonating a Senate staff member in connection with the US Senate's investigation into the collapse of [...]

LONDON -- ExxonMobil and BP face antitrust action in Alaska after a local development agency accused the energy groups of withholding gas from the market and inflating the price paid [...]

NEW YORK -- Citigroup yesterday agreed to pay Dollars 2bn to settle a class action lawsuit filed by Enron investors who sued the world's largest financial services group for its [...]

Business groups and corporate lawyers were breathing a sigh of relief yesterday after the US Supreme Court overturned one of the biggest corporate fraud verdicts of the post-Enron era, the [...]

The US Supreme Court will this week step into the debate over the use of the so-called 'corporate death penalty' when it re-examines the case that caused the first fatality [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - The Denver Post - Colorado) Byline: Siddhartha Kumar NEW DELHI -- A trial relating to accounting fraud at India's information technology firm Satyam Computer Services [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - The Register Guard - Eugene, Oregon) Byline: Karen McCowan A Delaware company that wants to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Coos Bay to [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.) Byline: James Mayer The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the 677-mile 'Ruby' natural gas pipeline across Wyoming, [...]

(From CBS Marketwatch (Stories)) Byline: Heather Gjerde HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling reported Wednesday to a low-security prison in Minnesota to begin serving a 24-year sentence for [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JOE STINEBAKER A federal appellate court's decision to delay Jeffrey Skilling's imprisonment may signal that at least some of the judges believe his chances on appeal [...]

(From FinancialWire) FinancialWire-22 November 2006-ProLiance Settles Civil Lawsuit With City Of Huntsville For $21.6 Million (C)2006 Investrend Communications, Inc. November 22, 2006 (FinancialWire) ProLiance Energy LLC, a gas marketing firm [...]

(From Financial Post) Byline: ERIC TALMADGE Two former Enron Corp. executives, including a close partner in crime of former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow, were sentenced yesterday for their [...]

(From US Newswire) To: National Desk Contact: The U.S. Department of Justice, 202-514-2008, 202-514-1888 or Web: http://www.usdoj.gov WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Former Enron Corp. executives Michael Kopper and [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced Friday to three years and one month [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced Friday to three years and one month [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Prosecutors are asking that two former Enron Corp. executives be given reduced sentences Friday for their cooperation in their investigation and subsequent convictions [...]

(From AFX Europe (Focus)) HOUSTON (AFX) - Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received [...]

(From AFX Europe (Focus)) HOUSTON (AFX) - Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received [...]

(From AFX Europe (Focus)) HOUSTON (AFX) - Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced Friday to three years and one month [...]

(From AFX Europe (Focus)) HOUSTON (AFX) - Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced Friday to three years and one month [...]

(From AFX Europe (Focus)) HOUSTON (AFX) - Prosecutors are asking that two former Enron Corp. executives be given reduced sentences for their cooperation in their investigation and subsequent convictions of [...]

(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JUAN A. LOZANO Richard Causey, the last of the top Enron Corp. executives to learn his punishment, was sentenced to five and a half years in [...]