The Houston Astros played at Enron Field until Enron was revealed to be a criminal enterprise and several of its leaders went to prison. The world has a short memory, it seems.
What OP was referring to was a take-the-money-and-run plan where the company knows ahead of time that the whole thing is going to explode and causes it to on purpose.
My understanding is that Enron's leaders were caught in fraud and that led to the collapse of the company—they weren't planning on it collapsing, so the investment actually made sense in that case.
