Indicted

Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline LP and an employee were indicted by a California grand jury Monday on 46 total criminal counts for allegedly violating state laws in connection with an oil pipeline leak last year near Santa Barbara.

Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline LP and an employee were indicted by a California grand jury Monday on 46 total criminal counts for allegedly violating state laws in connection with an oil pipeline leak last year near Santa Barbara.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a man accused of trying to blow up a natural gas pipeline in suburban Dallas last month.

The former CEO of Rocky Mountain Energy Corp. (RMEC) was indicted Friday in Houston on 10 counts of securities fraud and three counts of making false or misleading statements in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings in 2002 and 2003.

The former CEO of Rocky Mountain Energy Corp. (RMEC) was indicted Friday in Houston on 10 counts of securities fraud and three counts of making false or misleading statements in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings in 2002 and 2003.

One of the first ex-energy traders to be indicted for taking part in a scheme to manipulate natural gas prices by reporting false information to industry publications was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison.

The trial date for one of five former natural gas traders who were indicted in late November on charges of reporting false trades has been pushed back to August from February, according to a published report. The trials of four other ex-traders also may be rescheduled.

A federal grand jury indicted Reliant Resources Inc. subsidiary, Reliant Energy Services Inc., and four trading executives Thursday on charges that they intentionally ratcheted up power prices in California by withholding generation capacity from the market during the state’s supply crunch in June 2000. Reliant becomes the first energy company to face criminal charges for its role in the state’s power crisis.

Richard Causey, Enron’s former top accountant, surrendered to the FBI last week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he helped to cook Enron’s books by creating financial schemes that hid losses, fabricated profits and eventually led to the collapse of America’s seventh largest company.