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Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 after Enron and related collapses, including WorldCom. The Act created the PCAOB, expanded auditor-independence rules, and required executive certification of filings. Enron booked estimated fair values of certain long-term contracts as current earnings.
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Enron scandal · What happened to Arthur Andersen?
A Houston jury convicted Andersen in 2002 of obstruction of justice related to document destruction. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction in 2005, but the firm had already lost its public-company audit practice. A February 2002 report by a special committee of Enron's board, chaired by William C. Powers Jr., describing the LJM partnerships, Raptor structures, and board oversight failures.
Enron scandal · How did Sarbanes-Oxley relate to Enron?
Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 after Enron and related collapses, including WorldCom. The Act created the PCAOB, expanded auditor-independence rules, and required executive certification of filings. Enron booked estimated fair values of certain long-term contracts as current earnings.
Enron scandal · What did Skilling v. United States change?
In 2010 the Supreme Court narrowed the honest-services fraud statute. Skilling's convictions on other counts stood; his sentence was later reduced. The decision is a major citation in white-collar law independent of Houston facts. Individual legal theories were litigated for years, but the collapse, the restatements, and the core criminal judgments are not an open mystery.
Enron scandal · closing 1
After the Houston verdicts, Enron's live legal life was appeals and estate work; the accounting-fraud story was already a teaching case. Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth merge. The company later named Enron becomes a pipeline-and-trading enterprise based in Houston.
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In 2010 the Supreme Court narrowed the honest-services fraud statute. Skilling's convictions on other counts stood; his sentence was later reduced. The decision is a major citation in white-collar law independent of Houston facts. Individual legal theories were litigated for years, but the collapse, the restatements, and the core criminal judgments are not an open mystery.
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After the Houston verdicts, Enron's live legal life was appeals and estate work; the accounting-fraud story was already a teaching case. Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth merge. The company later named Enron becomes a pipeline-and-trading enterprise based in Houston.