Enron's Causey sentenced to 66 months in prison

5 1/2 years in prison for Enron chief accountant

Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:17 PM ET

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced former Enron Corp. chief accounting officer Richard Causey to 66 months in prison for approving the bogus bookkeeping that led to the company's 2001 collapse.

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake set Causey's sentence at 66 months, or five and a half years. Causey, 46, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in late December 2005, weeks before he was scheduled to go on trial with former Enron founder Ken Lay and chief executive Jeff Skilling, both of whom were found guilty in May. Lay died of a heart attack on July 5.