Judge drops charges in Enron case
A judge has dismissed pending charges against a third defendant in a problematic Enron-related case marred by overturned convictions and flawed legal theory.
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A judge has dismissed pending charges against a third defendant in a problematic Enron-related case marred by overturned convictions and flawed legal theory.
In the first criminal trial to emerge following Enron Corp.'s collapse, a federal jury in Houston Wednesday convicted four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and one former Enron executive of conspiracy and fraud for taking part in a sham financial deal involving Nigerian power barges to improve the energy company's earnings. A former Enron accountant was acquitted.