Last top Enron scandal executive jailed

Richard Causey, the last of the top Enron Corporation executives to learn his punishment, has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for his role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in US history.

Causey, the energy trading company’s former chief accounting officer, pleaded guilty in December to securities fraud two weeks before he was to be tried along with Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on conspiracy, fraud and other charges.