Michael Kopper

• Odd man out at Enron; did Michael Kopper's sexual orientation play a role in his becoming the first man to fall in the country's biggest corporate scandal?

He made his fortune by operating on the sidelines--familiar territory for this gay man. And at Enron Corp., it was a role Michael J. Kopper used to hi...

• The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine
• Nbr. 2002, June 2002

• Former Enron Executives Michael Kopper, Mark Koenig Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in Enron Fraud Scheme

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• U.S. Newswire
• November 17, 2006

• Judge Delivers Light Sentences

HOUSTON -- Two Enron executives received sharply reduced sentences Friday after cooperating with prosecutors to help convict the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history. Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison. An hour later, Mark Koenig, the company's former investor relations chief, received an 18-month sentence.

• The Columbian
• November 21, 2006

• 2 Ex-Enron Execs Sentenced for Roles in Collapse

HOUSTON -- Two Enron executives received sharply reduced sentences Friday after cooperating with prosecutors to help convict the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history. Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison. An hour later, Mark Koenig, the company's former investor relations chief, received an 18-month sentence.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 20, 2006

• USA v. James Brown, (5th Cir. 2011)

...Ben Glisan and Michael Kopper, both high-ranking Enron finance executives...

• Federal Circuits

• 2 Ex-Enron Execs Get Reduced Sentences for Roles in Collapse

HOUSTON -- Two former Enron executives whose cooperation with prosecutors helped bring convictions for the architects of the biggest scandal in U.S. corporate history received sharply reduced sentences Friday. Michael Kopper, once the top lieutenant to former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced to three years and one month in prison. An hour later, Mark Koenig, the company's former investor relations chief, received an 18-month sentence.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 17, 2006

• The Undercivilization of Corporate Law

A system that allows the nonculpable to be punished can be described as having Type I errors, and a system that allows the culpable to go unpunished has Type II errors. This article argues that civil law and criminal law in the corporate law arena must be harmonized to restore the traditional policy preferences of allowing free access to the civil courts while harnessing prosecutorial power. In any system that determines guilt or liability, participants in that system should want to reduce both Type I errors, in which a nonculpable party is found to be culpable, and Type II errors, in which a culpable party is found not to be culpable. Because no system will ever be perfect, eliminating these errors entirely is not feasible. Should the system be altered by merely reforming criminal pros...

... with lower-level employees, such as Michael Kopper, allowed prosecutors to gather evidence imp...

• Journal of Corporation Law
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 2, January 2008

• Ex-Enron Official's Sentencing Is Delayed Until October

HOUSTON -- The February sentencing date for the first ex-Enron Corp. executive to plead guilty to criminal charges related to the fallen company's collapse has been pushed to October. Michael Kopper, 39, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in August 2002 and led federal prosecutors to his former boss, former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow. Kopper's Feb. 27 sentencing hearing last week was rescheduled for Oct. 15.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• February 17, 2004

• Aide: Fastow Wanted to Appear a Hero

HOUSTON - As Enron Corp. scrambled to unload interest in several barges in December 1999, former finance chief Andrew Fastow contemplated coming to the rescue with a buyer he created so he would be a hero to then-president Jeffrey Skilling, Fastow's former top aide testified Monday. The aide, Michael Kopper, said during the first criminal trial to emerge from Enron's December 2001 crash that he considered it a risky deal for Fastow's LJM2 partnership to buy into, even though Fastow said it would help Enron and "he would look like a hero to Jeff Skilling.

• The Columbian
• September 28, 2004

• Campus Names

Morgan Shrader, a 2009 graduate of Christiansburg High School, was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma at Radford University. Beta Gamma Sigma is The International Honor Society for business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International.

...Michael Alexander, assistant professor of history in the C..., Valerie Glass, Jose Jimenez, Regis Kopper, Jean Lane, Angela Osborn, Nikorn Pothayee, Chris...

• Roanoke Times & World News
• May 04, 2011