"The new indictment accused Lay, Skilling and Causey of enriching themselves through salaries, bonus, grants of stock and stock options.
I'd be enriching myself through a salary if I could find a job. Maybe I'd better not, now that it's a crime in America.
Yes, it appears that the frenzy is creating new crimes. I think that the media, even folks like Investor's Business Daily needs to take a deep breath and regain their composure. When the mob gets it "blood rage" going it can be pretty frightening.
Oh course if Kerry and ultra-liberal democrats are elected successful people will be given a choice between crimes of illegal "enrichment" or donating more in taxes and political party donations.
Actually, I have been doing a bit of genealogical research on my dad's side of the family that were Germans from Russia. It appears that four of six brothers (my grandfather was one) left Russia with their families for the US between 1900 and 1908. In the 1930's in the Ukrane, prosperous hard working farmers of German heritage were being collected in the middle of the night by Communist Party officers and shipped to labor camps in Siberia for the crimes of being "kulaks" or "children of kulaks." Most of them died there.
Maybe it isn't a "new" crime after all?
Have a great weekend!