Enron: How America's Biggest Company Was a Lie

Fortune Magazine named Enron America's most innovative company six years in a row. Its CEO was on the covers of business magazines. Its stock hit ninety dollars a share. And almost none of it was real.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Enron — the Houston energy giant that used mark-to-market accounting and hundreds of fake offshore entities to inflate profits by eleven billion dollars. We follow the money from Jeffrey Skilling's arrival to Andy Fastow's shadow empire to the morning twenty thousand employees showed up for work and found out their retirement savings were gone.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes every Monday and Wednesday.