"U.S. Won't Seek Retrial of Former Merrill Lynch Official in Enron Case"

The Wall Street Journal has this story:

In the latest twist in the government's multi-year prosecution of the Enron Corp. scandal, the Justice Department moved Wednesday to drop charges against a former Merrill Lynch & Co. official days before a scheduled retrial involving the only criminal case brought against Wall Street figures in the alleged misdeeds at the onetime energy giant Enron Corp.