Thanks, I'd love to see the details of the grocery bill 'scandal'.
You might have missed the reports of investigation & negotiations re: Lea Fastow when they were transpiring, and perhaps my comments earlier re: the prosecutors using threats of her prosecution to get to Andy Fastow.
The separate Plea Agreements of the Fastows are intertwined, and cross-referenced. They had to be. They're also signed & dated the same day, January 14, 2004.
BTW - after Fastow cut his deal his wife refused to accept it and supposedly cut her own deal! LOL
I started looking for the grocery store scandal story that I had read months ago and ran across this 2003 story about Mrs. Fastow from Business Week Online:
On May 1, federal agents handcuffed her and charged the Houston heiress with helping Andrew orchestrate one of the most notorious white-collar crimes in history.
She's accused of wire fraud, money laundering, and filing false income-tax returns.
According to the government, the socialite belonged to a small group of loyalists who executed the complex schemes
devised by Andrew Fastow to inflate Enron's performance and enrich themselves. She is accused, essentially, of serving as a stand-in for her husband --
wiring money, cashing checks, and handling financial housekeeping matters that the Enron CFO didn't want his fingerprints on. Lea's story, pieced together for the first time by BusinessWeek from internal corporate documents, government investigations, and more than two dozen interviews with friends and co-workers, is unique. No heiress has ever been charged with such complex financial fraud. She and Andy, who earned more than $60 million from 1997 to 2000, are the only husband-and-wife team implicated in the current round of corporate scandals.
So she get a year and her husband gets a couple of years in a mental health facility. Skilling,who was never charged with anything like that and who was cleared of any insider trading gets 24 years. That sounds fair. /s