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Broadway World
February 27, 2018
ENRON is a 2009 play by British playwright Lucy Prebble. The play is based on the financial scandal and eventual collapse of the American energy corporation, Enron, based in Houston,Texas. Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling (Annemarie Alaniz) and his boss Ken Lay (Kayla Johnson) are the mainÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
February 27, 2018
The investors said one UBS entity knew of Enron's poor prospects, but another UBS entity brokered the investors' purchase of Enron debt anyway and failed to disclose Enron's instability, according to the court's opinion. However, the investors didn't show the UBS entities shared knowledge or actedÃâà...
Houston Business Journal
February 22, 2018
A Netherlands-based company has named Houston as its U.S. headquarters after developing artificial intelligence business software influenced in part by lessons learned after the collapse of Houston-based Enron Corp., one of the largest bankruptcies in world history. KeenCorp B.V.'s software aims toÃâà...
austin360
February 19, 2018
Presented as an epic myth and featuring a cast of all female and non-binary actors, “Enron” takes us through the twists and turns of capitalism, the glamour of greed and the toxic adrenaline of success. Through an engrossing mix of drama and comedy, the play will demonstrate the depth of deceit that led toÃâà...
UT The Daily Texan
February 19, 2018
When acting senior Annemarie Alaniz took on the role of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, she saw it as an opportunity to assume an identity that she normally wouldn't be able to fulfill in real life. “I know that there would probably be no other opportunity to play a character this way,” Alaniz said. “Getting toÃâà...
Indianapolis Business Journal
February 12, 2018
If the name Andy Fastow rings a bell, it's probably because of his former role as CFO of Enron Corp., the Houston-based company that collapsed under the weight of fraud in 2002. Fastow pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in relation to the Enron case, and in 2006 he was sentenced to six years inÃâà...
Austin Chronicle
December 31, 1999
The rise and fall of Houston corporate monolith Enron was a stain on American business practices that ruined the lives of 20,000 employees and grifted billions of dollars from countless investors. It also serves as the current business model for quite a few companies in the U.S. It is a story people reallyÃâà...
austin360 (blog)
December 31, 1999
In the early years of the 21st century, no company was more synonymous with corporate corruption than Enron. The shady accounting and outright fraud of many of the Houston-based energy company's dealings led to a massive bankruptcy, congressional investigation and decades of jail time for some ofÃâà...