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(Photo: AP/Houston Chronicle)
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Lea Fastow, wife of embattled former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, pleaded guilty May 6, 2004, to a federal misdemeanor tax crime for helping her husband hide ill-gotten income from the government. She was sentenced to the maximum of one year in prison and surrendered to authorities to begin serving the term July 12, 2004.
Her sentencing came after intense legal wrangling, during which she, at one point, entered and withdrew a guilty plea. A trial had been set on six felony charges -- four counts of filing false tax forms and two counts of conspiracy -- but prosecutors later replaced them with the single misdemeanor charge of filing a false tax form.
The Fastows worked at a Chicago bank before joining Enron in 1990. She was assistant treasurer when she left the company in 1997.
Names of the Fastows and their family foundation are on several bank accounts frozen by federal prosecutors before the couple was indicted.
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