From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I don't think corporations are any worse than the rest of society. That
said, irresponsible actions by a corporate entity are capable of hurting
far more individuals than any bank robber can even imagine. Is that a cause
of headlines?  It sure is. And justifiably so.


"Mark"  wrote in message
news:44775063$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Oh, I don't disagree with you in the least on that point Rich. I just
> meant that the impression that the media is fostering (to me anyway) is
> that corporations are bad on widespread basis, when it's actually an
> infinitesimal number of bad characters at hardly any companies.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44767391{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I suspect that you read more into the evening news than what was said.
>>This is about Enron and the trial/conviction of those who hurt a great
>>deal of people and who should be hurt in turn. Unfortunately any
>>punishment for Skilling and Lay won't even begin to compensate those who
>>were hurt by these clowns
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:44766fa1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Gary B. is right, despite the media hoopla (well deserved for the perps
>>> in this case) the fact remains that only a dozen or so
>>> executives/companies were charged/prosecuted for engaging in fraud out
>>> of countless thousands.
>>>
>>> The impression left though, because of that hoopla, was that all of
>>> corporate America are crooks, which is obviously a crock, but the
>>> impression plays good on the evening news...
>>>
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:4475d7f0{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/25/news/newsmakers/enron_verdict/index.htm?cn
n=yes
>>>>
>>>> HOUSTON (CNNMoney.com) - Enron former chief executive
Jeffrey Skilling
>>>> and founder Kenneth Lay were found guilty Thursday of conspiracy and
>>>> fraud in the granddaddy of all corporate fraud cases.
>>>>
>>>> On the sixth day of deliberations, a jury of eight women
and four men
>>>> convicted the former executives of misleading the public
about the true
>>>> financial health of Enron, whose collapse in late 2001
symbolized the
>>>> wave of corporate fraud that swept the United States early
this decade.
>>>>
>>>>
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