In 1996, after an eight month trial, the two brothers and Larry Trachtenberg were cleared of charges of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud company pensioners.
But attorneys for Skilling and Lay pounded at Koenig, trying to get him to concede the defense theory there was no company-wide fraud or conspiracy at Enron, but merely the Venn diagram of a few bad corporate apples--such as ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow --lots of shaky investors and a brutal market.
It is vaguely possible to construct conspiracy theories about a large company being behind it.
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The club terminated the player's contract before his conviction in December 2006 for conspiracy to rob a roofing company in June 2005.
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The former Sheffield United, Scarborough, Grimsby and Chester player was found guilty of conspiracy to rob a roofing company in which Thomas Fahey was murdered.
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David McHugh, 53, of Cheshire, admitted conspiracy to defraud by producing false company accounts.
On March 31, 2010, a Manhattan Grand Jury Indictment (originally filed under seal on February 18, 2010) was unsealed in which David Porath, a former owner of a maintenance and insulation company, was charged with engaging in a conspiracy to rig bids for NYPH contracts for re-insulation services, and for filing a false federal tax return in 2005 that substantially understated his income.
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The Justice Department on Thursday alleged that Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corp. of America, and other employees engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to hide the fact that many company products were tainted with salmonella.
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He alleges their participation in a vast conspiracy to drive down the shares of his company through the distribution of false information that allowed traders to profit from their short positions in Overstock.com.
When the truth emerged, it led to the company's collapse in 2001 while top executives were jailed for conspiracy and fraud.
The U.S. Justice Department earlier this year indicted one of the company's two founders, Mehdi Gabayzadeh , for bank fraud and conspiracy, but that hasn't helped bondholders get their money back.
The company was recently bought by defence giant EADS, which has raised questions among conspiracy theorists that Saad al-Hilli's murder was work-related.
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Along with Collins and Bennett, former chief financial officer Robert Trosten and a former president of the company, Tone Grant, have been indicted on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy.
Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay , both former chief executives of the defunct energy trading company, were convicted Thursday on 25 of 34 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy and making false statements.
Meanwhile, the poster child of the boom, Ratio, has seen its star fade after authorities launched a criminal probe of the company's relationship with an Israeli wanted by the U.S. on racketeering and conspiracy charges.
Ebbers himself was indicted March 2 on charges of conspiracy and securities fraud for his alleged involvement in a scheme to artificially inflate his company's stock price between the fall of 2000 and the summer of 2002.
Mr Sullivan and the company's former comptroller, David Myers, were arrested on August 1st on securities-fraud and conspiracy charges.
Cheney, who was Halliburton's CEO in the 1990s, and nine others were charged with conspiracy and "distribution of gratification to public officials" in a long-running case involving the company and its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary.
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