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The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether Skilling gets a new trial or his sentence reduced. Meantime, Fortune has published a sympathetic profile in which he describes three key mistakes he feels led to his conviction.

A few years ago documentary film director Alex Gibney took on Enron. Now he's set his unforgiving sights on Jack Abramoff, the convicted lobbyist and former king of K Street.

An attempted terrorist bombing in Times Square didn't stop theater curtains rising on Broadway. But the highly anticipated musical Enron -- closed almost instantly, even though it was so successful in London. Apparently, Americans weren't nearly as amused.

Enron, a musical hit about the Texas energy company's dizzying rise and fall, is coming to Broadway. The story of high finance and fraud unfolded nine years ago, but in an economy still reeling from the Lehman Brothers collapse, it's lessons are more relevant -- and funnier -- than ever.

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.

The former Enron CEO, who oversaw a company that was fundamentally dishonest, is trying to get the Supreme Court to throw out a law that requires executives to behave honestly. If his lawyers succeed, he'll go free. But Skilling really deserves to stay in jail forever.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about whether former Enron executive, Jeffrey Skilling, should get a new trial in a venue other than Houston, where his first trial took place.

By many measures, this past decade was a downer. We experienced the dot-com bust, terrorism attacks, the Enron scandal, Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, at least two wars and the Jonas Brothers. Oh, and lest I forget, one of worst financial crises in history. For anyone reading this,...

Last week, David Friehling, the auditor who had purportedly handled Bernie Madoff's books for years, pleaded guilty to nine charges having to with his auditing work, or lack thereof. The charges included securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, false filings with the SEC and obstructing or...

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...