Ex-Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, facing sentencing later this month for his role in the energy trading giant’s collapse, paid a fine to a Dallas court for public drunkenness, according a report on Wednesday on the Houston Chronicle website.
Skilling did not appear in the Dallas court, but pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge and mailed in a $385 fine.
Skilling was cited by Dallas police for public intoxication while walking in an area of upscale restaurants in downtown Dallas early on September 9.
Skilling is scheduled to be sentenced on October 23 after being found guilty in May on 19 counts of fraud, insider trading and conspiracy related to the Enron’s collapse in 2001. – Reuters