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Skilling V. Enron

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Facts
Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling established Enron in 1985. Enron was one of the largest corporations in America before the scandal in late 2001. Executives at Enron; Fastow, Lay, Skilling and other major players; Duncan, Berardino and Watkins at Enron showed profitability while pocketing the profits through “maintaining agency” over their earnings reports sent to their investors. They did this by not reporting any financial statements or any losses. Enron was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2001.
Issues
Plaintiff Washington State Investment Board makes a class action claim under the Texas Securities Act against defendants Arthur Anderson LLP, JP Morgan, and Lehman Brothers and against individual Enron defendants in connection with the sale to the Washington Board. Lead plaintiff’s alleged that these and other named defendants are liable for making false statements, failing to disclose adverse facts while selling Enron securities and/or participating in a scheme to defraud a course of business that operated as a fraud or deceit on purchasers of Enron’s public securities. Plaintiffs assert that defendants participated in massive Ponzi scheme to inflate Enron’s reported revenues, mask its growing debts, sustain its falsely high stock …show more content…

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