Prosecutors wading through the burgeoning and expensive Enron Corp. case may consider charges in the next month related to Whitewing and Yosemite, two of the company’s partnerships that helped the former energy merchant create cash flow and hide assets.

The possible charges were revealed in a court filing by Ben Glisan, Enron’s former treasurer, who already is under indictment on 24 charges that include conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering. He was charged May 1 in a 109-count superseding indictment that named CFO Andrew Fastow and former Enron finance executive Dan Boyle.

In a status report to the court, Glisan’s attorneys indicated that on May 8 prosecutors indicated that it was “likely” Glisan could be reindicted within “four to six weeks” based on Whitewing and Yosemite transactions. Glisan, who worked directly for Fastow, served as a key liaison between Enron and Citigroup for Yosemite.

Citigroup, which helped set up some Enron partnerships, is negotiating a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over Yosemite and also faces a civil lawsuit for encouraging mutual funds to invest in the deal. Enron also is suing Whitewing to recover almost $1 billion in payments it made to the partnership in 2001.

Whitewing was a limited partnership Enron created on Sept. 24, 1999, which helped the company appear to carry less debt. Whitewing was used to buy company assets, such as power plants and natural gas pipelines in South America and Europe. Its main asset was several hundred thousand shares of Enron stock.

Another Enron partnership, Osprey, convinced investors to put as much as $2.4 billion into Whitewing, which used the money to “purchase” assets from Enron. Enron maintained control of the assets but was able to record the sale to Whitewing as revenue.

In other news, Fastow was charged last week in Houston federal court with 31 more criminal charges, including insider trading, filing false tax forms and for conspiracy to falsify the books and records of the bankrupt energy merchant.

Fastow, 41, remains free on $5 million bond after pleading not guilty last fall to 78 counts of fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice

To date, 19 former Enron employees have been charged in the wide-ranging federal investigation. However, no civil or criminal indictments against former CEO Jeffrey Skilling or former Chairman Kenneth Lay have been filed by the government. Both Skilling and Lay have repeatedly stated they knew nothing of any illegal or improper activities.

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