HOUSTON -- Kevin Howard, Enron’s former broadband finance chief, has received one year’s probation, including nine months’ home confinement, for falsifying company books.
His sentence on Monday came under a deal with prosecutors for his June 1 guilty plea to one count of falsifying books and records. The Justice Department said Mr. Howard could have received up to 12 months’ home confinement under the plea deal.
Prosecutors had counseled leniency, stipulating that Mr. Howard didn’t benefit personally from any fraud committed at Houston-based Enron, which collapsed in December 2001 under the weight of faked accounting.
Howard had been tried twice, first in 2005 in a proceeding that ended in a hung jury, then in a 2006 trial that ended in a conviction that was later tossed out.
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