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 HOUSTON (AP) - One of the key prosecution witnesses whose testimony helped convict former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and company founder Kenneth Lay was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison.
It's been nearly three years since Kenneth Rice, 48, the former chief of Enron Corp.'s high-speed Internet unit, pleaded guilty to securities fraud and agreed to help federal prosecutors on other cases related to the energy giant's collapse. His sentencing was postponed as he cooperated with prosecutors.
Rice becomes the ninth ex-Enron executive to receive a jail term after pleading guilty to crimes.
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