Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Skilling
Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skillingis the former CEO of the Enron Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas. In 2006, he was convicted of federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse and is currently serving 14 years of a 24-year, four-month prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp – Montgomery in Montgomery, Alabama. The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in the appeal of the case March 1, 2010. On June 24, 2010, the Supreme Court vacated part of Skilling's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 November 1953
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.
I didn't hear about it, the note, until it was published in the newspapers that following January.
This was about protecting gains, not hiding losses.
The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.