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Andrew Stuart Fastow was born in Washington, D.C. He grew up in New Providence, New Jersey. is an American businessman who was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation, an energy trading company based in Houston, Texas, until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001. Fastow was one of the key figures behind the complex web of off-balance-sheet special purpose entities used to conceal their massive losses. Fastow served a six-year prison sentence for charges related to these acts. Fastow graduated from Tufts University in 1983 with B.A.s in economics and Chinese. Fastow and Weingarten both earned MBAs at Northwestern University and worked for Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago.