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People Matters
April 30, 2018
Enron's CEO Jeffrey Skilling is addressing a large herd of Enron employees about the plans to introduce the Performance Review Committee in the upcoming quarter. The Performance Review Committee had the foundations of the Vitality Curve, popularly known as the Bell Curve and originally pioneered by GeneralÃâà...
Harbus Online
April 18, 2018
I like to believe that our HBS colleagues are, as a rule, imperfect but good people – not on the paths of Rajat Gupta or Jeffrey Skilling. But I wonder if these men would have changed their behavior based on any course HBS could have offered. Why? Because people arrive on the wrong side of ethics andÃâà...
Benzinga
April 18, 2018
Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day 17 years ago, Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling called Highfields Capital analyst Richard Grubman an “a--hole” on Enron's public earnings conference call. Where The Market Was.
Security Boulevard
April 5, 2018
Russell Wasendorf allegedly stole over $215 million from his customers and falsified bank statements to cover it up. Bernie Madoff was arrested for losing $50 billion while running ponzi schemes. Jeffrey Skilling was initially sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined $45 million for recording projected futureÃâà...
Management Today
March 28, 2018
For a start, business ethics aren't exactly uniformly distributed – for every Paul Polman there's a Jeffrey Skilling lurking. Even if every firm were truly committed to substantively reducing plastic waste, it wouldn't be enough. With all those negative externalities floating about, only government can create theÃâà...
WatertownDailyTimes.com
March 24, 2018
In 2006, he lost a case defending Jeffrey Skilling, chief executive of Enron, of fraud and conspiracy. Petrocelli is expected to argue that the government is missing the bigger picture. AT&T says Silicon Valley companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google have disrupted the entertainment industry by spendingÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 24, 2018
FBI Director Robert Mueller, left, confers with Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, head of the Justice Department's corporate fraud task force, as they announce charges against Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, in Washington at the Department of Justice, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004. Skilling, whoÃâà...
SFGate
March 16, 2018
In 2006, he lost a case defending Jeffrey Skilling, chief executive of Enron, of fraud and conspiracy. Petrocelli is expected to argue that the government is missing the bigger picture. AT&T says tech companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google have disrupted the entertainment industry by spending billions ofÃâà...
New York Times
March 15, 2018
In 2006, he lost a case defending Jeffrey Skilling, the chief executive of Enron, of fraud and conspiracy. Mr. Petrocelli is expected to argue that the government is missing the bigger picture. AT&T says that Silicon Valley companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google have disrupted the entertainment industryÃâà...
LeftLion
March 13, 2018
The performances are excellent all-round, although particular mention should go to Charles Evans (Jeffrey Skilling) who makes an excellent lead, Cainaan Skeels (Ken Lay) who is convincing as a sixty-something Texan, Stuart Quigley (who plays various roles, but is laugh out loud as Arthur Andersen) andÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 6, 2018
The prototypical example may be Enron's Jeffrey Skilling, who boasted about a “CFO of the year” award and set up an elaborate web of off-balance-sheet entities to hide the company's financial condition. Chad Ham, an assistant professor of accounting at Washington University's Olin Business School, andÃâà...
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...
Charleston Post Courier
February 9, 2018
Past residents of Englewood include former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Like those men, Slager has filed an appeal in hopes of getting out sooner than his January 2034 release date. The former patrolman got into a struggle with Scott, 50, after a traffic stop for a broken brake light. He said he then shot ScottÃâà...
The Guardian
November 5, 2014
Skilling is escorted from the federal courthouse in Houston after being re-sentenced for his role in the energy giant's collapse. Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP. The former chief executive of Enron, jailed for his role in the collapse of the energy giant, could be free before the end of the decade after he was givenÃâà...
CNBC.com
January 9, 2014
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling—who last year received a reduction in his 24-year prison sentence for conspiracy, fraud and insider trading—has been moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala.—an upgrade in accommodations from a Colorado facility, where he has servedÃâà...
CBS News
June 21, 2013
(MoneyWatch) He can walk early, but not that early. Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling succeeded in getting his prison sentence reduced by 10 years as part of a court-ordered reduction. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of the Southern District of Texas announced at a hearing in Houston today that Skilling willÃâà...
NPR (blog)
May 8, 2013
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling could have his more than 24-year prison sentence reduced by as many as 10 years under a deal announced Wednesday by the Justice Department. The agreement with Skilling's lawyers, which still needs the approval of a federal judge, would reduce the former EnronÃâà...
WTVA
December 31, 1999
Executives including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were prosecuted for fraud-related crimes. Key figures sold their stock shortly before the company announced a sharp downturn in earnings. Lower-level employees were encouraged to invest in company stock for their retirement savings just before theÃâà...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
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...
WSB Radio
December 31, 1999
... Robert Mueller, left, Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, head of the Justice Department's corporate fraud task force, and Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray of the Justice Department Criminal Division, right, announce charges against Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, in Washington.
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