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Trial Begins for Enron Technology Executives

By Wade Goodwyn

Published April 18, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

A trial for five former executives of Enron's Internet technology division begins Monday in Houston. They are charged with artificially inflating stock prices in 1999 by lying about the company's broadband Internet network's capabilities and benefiting from selling their own stocks.

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