S. And eventually to its collapse and declaration of bankruptcy on December 2001. Kenneth Lay held the position as the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 to January 23, 2002. Lay is regarded directly to Enron's over all corporate history. One of the noted businessmen in Houston, Lay closely monitored the development of Enron from a startup company to billion dollar energy giant in the late 90's.
Kenneth Lay with his flaring tactics have influenced different sectors of the government in the interest of Enron which only have lead to more outrage among consumers.
Enron and its chief executive officer, Kenneth Lay, have been remarkably successful in lobbying the executive branch, leaders in Congress and various federal regulatory officials to withdraw government monitoring of many corporate activities within domestic energy markets. As a result of Enron's influence over the last several years, the government has abandoned enforcement powers that prevent corporate abuses of market power. Enron's pursuit of treating electricity as a speculative commodity resulted in millions of consumers paying significantly more for their power and subjected an entire state to forced power outages" (Tyson Slocum, Blind Faith, 2001).
When the Enron Scandal was revealed to the public on November 2001, Kenneth Lay was one of the person that were accused of misleading its investors and public trust by issuing assuring statement that what was happening with Enron was only temporary and urged the investors to buy stocks that were gradually declining towards the last quarter of 2000 to 2001. With the first hand knowledge of the true status of Enron's financial crisis, Lay sold more than $70 Million worth of stocks and his wife selling almost $1.2 Million that eventually was directed to charity by means of her foundation. Lay resigned as the CEO of Enron on January 23, 2002.
Kenneth Lay was charged of several cases of financial crimes, bank frauds, money laundering, insider trading among other cases filed in court. From July 7, 2004 to May 25, 2006 Lay was put on trial by and was found guilty on a number of security and financial fraud charges wand was facing a maximum sentence reaching 20 to 30 years in prison. On July 05, 2006, Kenneth Lay died due to a massive heart attack while on vacation in Snowmass Colorado. Because of his death the court abated his guilty verdict leaving only Jeffrey Skilling to face trial and conviction.
Jeffrey Skilling widely noted in the U.S. business world as the disgraced CEO of Enron, started his career in Enron in 1987 until then chairman and CEO of Enron Keneth Lay hired J. Skilling with the position of chief executive officer of Enron Finance Corporation. Skilling was one of the people that conceptualized and pushed through with the launching Enron Online. By February 12, 2001, Skilling was appointed as the CEO of Enron leading the way to the demise of Enron on the same year.
Living in a fast phased and dangerous life, Enron's CEO. Jeffrey Skilling proved to be ruling a more refined Enron management but was attributed to tolerate immorality, corruption and greed within top management of Enron. He became very idealistic in terms of his vision for Enron. He wanted to make Houston as an alternative to the Wall Street Banks.
He wanted to recruit the best, which meant persuading the leading business school graduates, from places such as Harvard and Stanford, to choose Houston over New York or Silicon Valley. He did so by creating the same culture of unself-conscious greed and reward which Wall Street was forced to suppress by the insider-trading scandals of the late 1980s. He built his own Bonfire of The Vanities in Houston and everyone wanted to feel its warmth" (Broughton, 2002).
With his passion landed Enron to its brink by the start of the new...
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