Enron: How the Biggest Corporate Fraud in History Was Hidden in Plain Sight
In the year 2000, Enron Corporation was the seventh largest company in the United States. It employed 29,000 people. Its stock traded at $90 a share. Fortune magazine had named it “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years. Fourteen months later, it was bankrupt. Its stock was worth 26 cents. Twenty thousand employees had lost their jobs. Thousands of ordinary workers had watched their retirement savings — invested almost entirely in Enron stock — evaporate to nothing. ...