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Andrew Weissmann is an American attorney and professor who served as a lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office. He also worked on the Enron Task Force, the FBI, and the Department of Justice, and taught at NYU Law School.
A Supreme Court case that overturned the conviction of Arthur Andersen, an accounting firm involved in the Enron scandal, for obstruction of justice. The Court found that the jury instructions did not properly convey the elements of the crime and that the firm was not corruptly persuading its employees to destroy documents.
Learn about the accounting scandal that brought down Enron, an American energy company, in 2001. Find out how Enron used special purpose entities, mark-to-market accounting, and fraud to hide billions of dollars in debt and losses, and how its collapse affected investors, regulators, and the industry.
When energy-trading company Enron declared bankruptcy in 2001, it was the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. The company's demise was tinged with scandal, as it was revealed that Enron ...
The trial of Kenneth Lay, former chairman and CEO of Enron, and Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO and COO, was presided over by federal district court Judge Sim Lake in the Southern District of Texas in 2006 in response to the Enron scandal.
United States, got its start in March 2022 when a district court judge dismissed federal obstruction charges against three Jan. 6 defendants, including Joseph W. Fischer, a former police officer.
John Clifford "Cliff" Baxter (September 27, 1958 – January 25, 2002) was an Enron Corporation executive who resigned in May 2001 before committing suicide the following year. Prior to his death he had agreed to testify before Congress in the Enron scandal.
A Supreme Court case about the scope of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding in the January 6 Capitol attack. The Court ruled 6–3 in 2024 that the charge only applied to evidence tampering, not other actions.