ripped from the headlines...
Oct. 23rd, 2006 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanof the New York Times, specifically.
"Jeffrey K. Skilling, the most vilified figure from the most notorious financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years, four months in the harshest sentence yet in the case that came to symbolize corporate fraud in America.
...Skilling, insisting he was innocent yet remorseful in a two-hour hearing, was the last top former official to be punished for the accounting tricks and shady business deals that led to the loss of thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in Enron stock and more than $2 billion in employee pension plans when Enron collapsed.
ETA: "Skilling will also be forced to forfeit $45 million, which prosecutors said would effectively wipe out his fortune." Me: awwwwww... oh wait, no. good.
It's not justice -- justice would have involved small rabid rodents and dull razors -- but it'll do.
"Jeffrey K. Skilling, the most vilified figure from the most notorious financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years, four months in the harshest sentence yet in the case that came to symbolize corporate fraud in America.
...Skilling, insisting he was innocent yet remorseful in a two-hour hearing, was the last top former official to be punished for the accounting tricks and shady business deals that led to the loss of thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in Enron stock and more than $2 billion in employee pension plans when Enron collapsed.
ETA: "Skilling will also be forced to forfeit $45 million, which prosecutors said would effectively wipe out his fortune." Me: awwwwww... oh wait, no. good.
It's not justice -- justice would have involved small rabid rodents and dull razors -- but it'll do.
