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Article #1212Re: Call Me A Liberal
From: trebor
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:21
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:21
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"Rod & BJ" <soggy@pacifier.com> wrote: >"trebor@sirius.com.no.more" >> True enough. However, too often people within corporations do things >> which are wrong, and for which they suffer no consequence. Corporation >> officers are too shielded from liability. > >Which people...doing what? I suppose the names Bernard Ebbers and Kenneth Lay stand out, but they are by no means lone operators; their boards of directors and their executives enabled and participated in fraud and embezzlement at an unprecedented scale. >What makes you think the same laws that apply to you or me do not apply >to a corporation or its employees? How many years do you think Ebbers and Lay are going to spend in jail? How many years do you think you or I would spend in jail if we stole even a tenth of a percent of what they did?
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