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A real head scratcher
The Stanford Financial Group scandal has been anything but typical, but yesterday's developments may have been the most bizarre yet. The big news, other than the hospitalization of R. Allen Stanford, was the guilty plea that Stanford's right-hand man...
Is Allen Stanford being railroaded?
I recognize that he is not the most popular fellow in Houston investment circles these days, but is anyone else but me a tad uncomfotable that the federal government is running roughshod over R. Allen Stanford? As everyone following...
Futch gets five
Amidst a flurry of sealed pleadings and orders denying his attempt to withdraw his guilty plea, former Reliant Energy natural gas trader Jerry Futch was sentenced to almost five years in prison yesterday by U.S. District Judge David Hittner based...
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,...
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...
Former Seitel CEO Paul Frame convicted
Paul Frame, the former CEO of Houston-based geophysical seismic company Seitel, Inc., was convicted yesterday by a jury in Houston federal court of of swindling $750,000 from the company to settle a civil lawsuit that his former fiancee had filed...
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...
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....
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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