The embattled former CEO of Enron will not testify before Congress as scheduled, a member of a key Senate committee told CNN. A lawyer for Kenneth Lay sent a letter Sunday to Senate Commerce ...

Lay was awaiting sentence on his conviction for fraud and conspiracy in the matter of Enron's collapse. A family spokesman confirmed to the media that the 64-year-old businessman had passed away ...

In the fall of 2001, as Enron’s internal problems mounted and its stock price tumbled, Chair Kenneth Lay told employees the opposite of what was really going on. “The company is fundamentally ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As lawmakers planned new moves Tuesday to force former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay to appear before committees probing the collapse of the troubled energy giant, Lay stepped ...

Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing ...

Former Enron chairman and chief executive Kenneth Lay has abruptly cancelled his planned testimony before Congress this week for what his lawyer characterised as the increasingly "prosecutorial ...

Enron didn’t begin as an energy trading company in 1985 when Kenneth Lay founded it. After the U.S. Congress adopted multiple laws deregulating the sale of natural gas, Enron lost the exclusive ...

In the fall of 2001, as Enron’s internal problems mounted and its stock price tumbled, Chair Kenneth Lay told employees the opposite of what was really going on. “The company is fundamentally sound,” ...

Enron was ranked as America’s fifth largest ... Executives including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were prosecuted for fraud-related crimes. Key figures sold their stock shortly before ...

January 25, 2002 - Former Enron vice chairman J. Clifford Baxter is found dead in an apparent suicide. February 12, 2002 - Lay invokes his Fifth Amendment right before the Senate Commerce Committee.

Enron Top Officials Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy Bethany Mclean of Fortune Magazine reports on the guilty verdict former top officials, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, former top officials.