This news is breaking while I am online, so I'll comment on it:
"GOOD."
Lay and Skilling were not just guilty of perpetrating a billion-dollar fraud against millions of investors. The attitudes that they exhibited through their "leadership" helped to foster an environment at Enron that made dishonesty perfectly acceptable as long as it led others to believe that the company was making money.
Lay and Skilling are also responsible for the destruction of the Arthur Anderson accounting firm, and for wiping out the careers and retirements of thousands of Arthur Anderson employees who had nothing to do with the Enron fraud, but who lost their jobs after Arthur Anderson folded.
So again I say "good." I only wish that it were possible for Enron and Arthur Anderson employees to lay claim these men's financial fortunes and leave them penniless too.
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