query: Were the people from Enron prosecuted?
passage: Enron scandal
Fastow and his wife, Lea, both pleaded guilty to charges against them. Fastow was initially charged with 98 counts of fraud, money laundering, insider trading, and conspiracy, among other crimes.[137] Fastow pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy and was sentenced to ten years with no parole in a plea bargain to testify against Lay, Skilling, and Causey.[138] Lea was indicted on six felony counts, but prosecutors later dismissed them in favor of a single misdemeanor tax charge. Lea was sentenced to one year for helping her husband hide income from the government.[139]
passage: Kathryn Ruemmler
Ruemmler is a former federal prosecutor who helped lead the government's case against the former executives of Enron.
Ruemmler clerked for Judge Timothy K. Lewis on the Third Circuit in 1996 and 1997
From 2000 to 2001 she served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton.
She worked as a federal prosecutor from 2001 to 2007, first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and finishing as a deputy director of DOJ's Enron Task Force.
In 2006, she delivered the government's closing argument in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, both of whom were convicted.
She returned to Latham in Washington, D.C. in 2007, this time as a partner, but left in January 2009 to serve as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. She served as White House Counsel from 2011–2014, and then again returned to Latham.