Skilling Gets Prison Delay
A United States appeals court will allow ex-Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling to stay out of prison while it considers his request for bail. Skilling had been scheduled to report to federal prison to begin a 24-year sentence for his part in hiding Enron's financial collapse from investors. A Houston jury sentenced Skilling in October after his conviction in May.
Skilling has been under house arrest since October and has been required to wear an electronic monitoring device around his ankle. Skilling also was ordered to pay about $50 million into a restitution fund for victims of Enron.
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