I agree.
People like Ebbers and Ken Lay gave corporate America an un-needed black eye thru their extreme greed.
Many investors and employees suffered badly because of their shenanigans.
And worse yet, all these scandals provided the dems with ammo in their bid to "re-form" corporate America.
I worked at WorldCom.
Lost around 40K.
Marty Frankel embezzled $3 billion from the insurance companies in Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi. Thurston Little, the older brother of the current president pro tempore of the Mississippi senate, got three years for helping Frankel launder several million of his embezzled money in Mississippi. Ebbers should have had a few democrats in his back pocket and he would have fared better.In the meantime, Thurston Little's brother changed from Democrat to Republican.