http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/06/news/midcaps/enron_lfastow.reut/HOUSTON (Reuters) - The wife of former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tax charge Thursday in a plea deal that forestalled a trial neither the prosecution nor defense wanted.
Lea Fastow, a former Enron assistant treasurer, entered her plea before U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who sentenced her to a term of one year in prison.
She told the judge she was guilty of submitting an income tax return that did not include money her family received from her husband's secretive partnerships
It was the second time Fastow had gone before Hittner to agree to a plea bargain. The first one collapsed April 7 after Hittner refused to stick with a five-month prison term prosecutors recommended and Fastow pulled out of the deal.
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