HOUSTON -- Federal prosecutors want...

HOUSTON -- Federal prosecutors want former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling to move round over nearly $183 million for helping perpetuate undivided of the biggest business frauds in U history -- his alleged share and that of his late co-defendant, company caster Kenneth Lay.

The command originally had split that amount between the pair who were convicted in May of charges including fraud and conspiracy after a four-month trial.

In late June prosecutors asked U District critic Sim Lake to order Skilling to pay $1393 million and Lay $435 million in be causeds the government contends they beared by conspiring to present an optimistic picture of Enron's health when they knew it was an illusion propp up by means of cooked books.

on the other hand Lay died July 5 of heart disease.

Prosecutors said that with his conspiracy conviction, Skilling is "liable for all the set to works attributable to all co-conspirators, indicted or unindicted, including Lay," because they participated in the same scheme.

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