Historical clue formulations

• Subject of 2001 bankruptcy headlines — 2026-01-07
• Company whose stock price cratered in the early 2000s — 2025-10-10
• Notable bankruptee of 2001 — 2024-06-16
• Company whose misconduct helped spawn the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) — 2024-03-24
• Subject of the 2003 book "Power Failure" — 2023-09-03
• "The Smartest Guys in the Room" subject — 2023-08-04
• Subject of a 2001 bankruptcy — 2023-04-23
• "___: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (2005 documentary) — 2023-01-15
• Defunct company of accounting fraud fame — 2022-07-10
• Company at the heart of an early 2000s scandal — 2022-02-04
• In early 2001, one of its executives notoriously said "From an accounting standpoint, this will be our easiest year ever" — 2021-09-05
• Energy giant synonymous with corporate scandal — 2021-06-28
• Noted example of corporate misconduct — 2020-10-15
• Former company with a crooked logo, appropriately enough — 2020-08-07
• Case study in many business ethics classes — 2019-11-10
• Corporate giant in a 2001 bankruptcy — 2019-03-25
• Company in a 2001-02 business scandal — 2018-12-31
• What Fortune magazine called "America's most innovative company" for six consecutive years — 2018-12-12
• "The Smartest Guys in the Room" company — 2018-12-11
• Company that's the subject of "The Smartest Guys in the Room" — 2018-11-21
• Infamous bankruptcy declarer of 2001 — 2018-08-21
• Subject of a 2001-02 scandal — 2018-07-01
• Big company in 2001 news — 2018-05-17
• Scandal-ridden company of the early 2000s — 2018-04-02
• 2000s corporate scandal subject — 2018-03-11
• Scandalmaker in 2002 news — 2017-01-08
• Name in a 2002 scandal — 2016-04-20
• Big bankruptcy of 2001 — 2015-12-13
• Successor company to Northern Natural Gas — 2015-03-19
• Classic example of corporate malfeasance — 2014-12-28
• Bankrupted company led by Kenneth Lay — 2014-07-08
• "America's most innovative company" prior to its bankruptcy in 2001 — 2014-07-06
• Scandalous company with a tilted-E logo — 2014-01-29
• Houston's old ___ Field — 2014-01-12
• Company whose logo was, appropriately, crooked — 2013-11-03
• Subject of the 2003 book "Power Failure" — 2013-10-04
• Onetime sponsor of what is now Minute Maid Park — 2013-08-29
• Noted bankruptcy of 2001 — 2013-08-27
• ___ Field (Minute Maid Park, once) — 2013-07-06
• Energy giant that went bankrupt in 2001 — 2012-08-06
• Company with a spectacular 2001 bankruptcy — 2012-04-30
• Energy giant that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 — 2012-02-27
• Noted declarer of bankruptcy in 2001 — 2012-02-22
• Company in 2002 headlines — 2011-12-10
• Collapsed company of 2001 — 2011-04-13
• Bankrupt company in 2001-02 news — 2010-09-29
• 2005 documentary subtitled "The Smartest Guys in the Room" — 2010-04-21
• ___ Field (former name of Minute Maid Park) — 2010-04-11
• Energy company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 — 2010-01-04
• Name in 2001 bankruptcy news — 2009-07-29