Former CEO of Enron's broadband division my get prison term of up to 16 months
The former chief executive of Enron's broadband division is slated to plead guilty today to a single count of wire fraud, a federal felony, rather than face a jury a second time.
Joseph Hirko was scheduled to be retried alongside Rex Shelby, a former top software executive, in December this year — more than three years after their first lengthy trial ended with a handful of acquittals, no convictions and jurors hung on dozens of other counts.
Read the full story in the Houston Chronicle article "Guilty plea likely in Enron case".
