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Look at what Mary Flood has been reading
Chronicle legal reporter Mary Flood covered many of the Enron-related criminal trials, so it was only natural for her to pick up a copy of former Enron Task Force prosecutor, law professor and current Oregon attorney general candidate John...
Lay-Skilling, Week Fifteen
Week 15 of the corporate criminal case of the decade (previous weeks summary posts here) was the relative calm before the final battle of closing arguments next week. Although there was a skirmish over the Ostrich jury instruction, the lull...
The increasingly bizarre case of Lea Fastow
As expected, the media is all over the well-scripted direct examination of former Enron CFO Andy Fastow, although some media sources are already questioning the credibility of some of Fastow's direct testimony. However, given the breadth of Fastow's direct examination,...
Fastow: "What do you mean 'tax fraud?'"
This earlier post noted that Lea Fastow -- a former mid-level Enron executive and wife of demonized former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow -- was prosecuted more harshly than normal for tax fraud because of her relationship to Fastow and endured...
Lea Fastow goes home
The Chronicle's Mary Flood reports that Lea Fastow -- who served a longer sentence under harsher conditions because of her marriage to former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow -- was released early this morning to go home from a halfway house...
Lea Fastow released from prison
The Chronicle's Mary Flood reports that Lea Fastow -- who served a longer sentence under harsher conditions because of her marriage to former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow -- was released to a halfway house from the Federal Detention Center in...
More ripples from the Anderson decision
Ellen Podgor over at the White Collar Crime Prof Blog points us to two documents that raise important issues relating to the federal government's questionable policy of attempting to regulate business through criminalization of what it deems to be questionable...
Lea Fastow's motion to reduce sentence is denied
The Chronicle's Mary Flood, who continues to do a fine job of covering the Enron scandal, posted this article today regarding U.S. District Judge David Hittner's denial of Lea Fastow's motion to reduce her one year sentence for misdemeanor tax...
It's definitely no resort
This NY Times article does a good job of describing what Lea Fastow, the wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, will face while serving her one year prison sentence at the Houston Federal Detention Center in downtown Houston....
Judge Hittner goes nuclear on Mike DeGeurin
U.S. District Judge David Hittner today took the unusual step of issuing a ten page order admonishing prominent Houston criminal defense attorney, Dick Degeurin, for sending a background report about DeGeurin's client, Lea Fastow, to the Bureau of Prisons. Mrs....
Enron Nigerian Barge case gets teed up
This Chronicle article reports on the pre-trial conference yeseterday in the Enron-related criminal case commonly known as the "Nigerian Barge case," which appears to be the first Enron-related criminal case that will actually go to trial. As noted in previous...
Lea Fastow gets a year
Lea Fastow's plea bargain with the Enron Task Force was approved today, and U.S. District Judge David Hittner sentenced her to a year in the slammer. Mrs. Fastow plea guilty to a misdemeanor charge of income tax evasion. The Task...
Enron Task Force blinks, enters into new plea deal with Lea Fastow
This Chronicle article reports that Lea Fastow, wife of ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, was charged with a misdemeanor tax count today and is scheduled to plead guilty at a new arraignment next Thursday. Previouwly subject to a six counts of...
Judge sets Lea Fastow trial to begin June 2
U.S. District Judge David Hittner kept the pedal to the metal in the Lea Fastow trial today by scheduling the case to begin on June 2. Everyone still expects that the government and counsel for Ms. Fastow will cut a...
Lea Fastow withdraws guilty plea
U.S. District Judge David Hittner announced to a crowded federal courtroom this morning that he would not accept the plea arrangement between the Enron Task Force and Lea Fastow. The judge declined to tell Lea Fastow what his sentence would...
Lea Fastow plea bargain
This morning, Lea Fastow -- wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow -- will learn whether federal District Judge David Hittner will accept her plea bargain with the Enron Task Force....
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