Instigator of Enron shady deals pleads guilty to conspiracy
The plea by the former Enron finance chief called for a 10-year sentence and for him to help prosecutors who have targeted but not charged the executives who once occupied the most opulent offices on the company's top floor: former chairman Kenneth Lay and former chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling.
Enron was the US's seventh-biggest company in 2001, and its bankruptcy was the largest such filing in US history at the time. Its stock once traded at above $90, but sank to mere pennies amid the collapse.