Swindlers in corporate boardrooms should go to jail








Swindlers in corporate boardrooms should go to jail




In today’s America, "corporate ethics" has replaced "government efficiency" as the nation’s biggest oxymoron.


Big-shot executives at WorldCom must have taken training at Enron; they repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment earlier this week during a congressional hearing on "accounting irregularities."


Instead of actually testifying, the execs refused to answer most questions on grounds that they might incriminate themselves. In other words, they kept mum instead of blatantly lying (which usually happens when their lips move).


White collar criminals who steal the hard-earned money of other Americans deserve to do some serious time behind bars with special cellmates—big dudes with tattoos and affectionate names like "Psycho."


Congress or the president or the justice department or somebody should start moving these criminals out of their mansions and into penitentiaries. These guys make Al Capone look like a choir boy.


The problem is, of course, that crime pays. These CEOs and corporate executives are living proof. Maybe if they did some hard time—none of that country club rehabilitation baloney—the corporate greed would end.


But don’t hold your breath.


Whenever politicians try to play hardball with big-business corporate donors, the game of justice is usually rained out before the first pitch.





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