Jeffrey Skilling

The college-age son of former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling has been found dead in the California apartment where the student lived. John Taylor Skilling, 20, was found dead Thursday laying near bottles of medication, police said, according to news reports. Authorities are awaiting results from an...

Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief executive officer who is serving a 24-year prison sentence for fraud, is seeking a new trial over government objections. Could Skilling soon regain his freedom?

The infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit has a sequel. A mother has sued the fast-food giant because too-hot chocolate burned her daughter. But the coffee suit was much stronger than was reported and may bolster the new case.

BP and Anadarko will battle over whether the former was grossly negligent in the Deepwater Horizon project before an arbitration panel, not a court. This means the fight won't help oil-spill plaintiffs. Plus, Viacom vs. YouTube and dangerously industry-friendly regulators.

Will Enron ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling get out of jail? The Supreme Court ruled today on several aspects of his convictions, and it vacated one of them. It's now up to a lower court to review the ruling and decide whether Skilling deserves a new trial.

Convicted fraudster Jeffrey Skilling has appealed his conviction with the Supreme Court on grounds he couldn't be expected to be honest as CEO of energy concern Enron when the entire company was dishonest. Though his argument is hard for some observers to take seriously, it's possible the court could actually rule in his favor.

Did Bernard Madoff just wake up one day and decide to steal $50 billion from his investors? Probably not. Other figures in the growing pantheon of white-collar criminals -- names like Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco), Jeffrey Skilling (Enron, pictured) and Bernard Ebbers (WorldCom) -- most likely didn't...

Just as we're starting to get some of the worst corporate crooks in recent memory behind bars -- and it looks like at least one infamous con man is starting to mix it up with his new neighbors -- a well-known white collar criminal hopes to win a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court. The high...

Last December when Bernie Madoff gave up on his $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme, I guessed that he had help. He could not have produced the fake statements on all those accounts by himself. But in a twist that I had not thought of back then, a lawsuit now alleges that Madoff's biggest clients were in on...

On Monday, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review his 2006 conviction for securities fraud. Citing prior complaints about pretrial publicity and the unfair application of the "honest services" fraud statute, Skilling's lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, argued that...