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Enron

Kenneth Lay & Jeffrey Skilling · 1985

Enron was an American energy, commodities and services company founded in 1985 through a merger. It grew into a major electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper company — then collapsed due to institutionalised, systematic accounting fraud. Its 2001 bankruptcy was the largest fraud-related bankruptcy in U.S. history. It reorganised as Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. in 2004.