The real crime is that so far none of the Feds have gone after the accounting firm that signed off on all of those corporate books and SEC filings for all of those years: Ernst and Young.
Sure, they can hammer some white collar women for fraud, but heaven forbid that we have another accounting firm scandal...
< /DISGUST >
I mean, *why* have auditors if they aren't doing any real auditing?! Why file all of those forms with the SEC in the first place, if they don't mean anything?
The Alabama papers are all claiming that Scrushy donated money solely to Republicans. A quick look below reveals that Repubs were in the tiny minority of his donations, however...
| SCRUSHY, LESLIE BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HOUSEWIFE | 10/23/2002 | $1,000 | Cleland, Max |
| SCRUSHY, LESLIE MRS BIRMINGHAM, AL 35242 |
9/22/2002 | $1,000 | Johnson, Nancy L | |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTH OUTH CORP | 7/22/1999 | $2,000 | Congressional Majority Cmte |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTHSOUTH CORP | 3/20/2000 | $1,000 | Aderholt, Robert |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTHSOUTH REHABILITATION COR | 10/23/2002 | $1,000 | Cleland, Max |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
8/11/2000 | -$1,000 | Ensign, John | |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
8/11/2000 | $1,000 | Ensign, John | |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
6/14/2000 | $2,000 | Ensign, John | |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTH SOUTH | 4/27/1999 | $1,000 | Harkin, Tom |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTH SOUTH | 4/27/1999 | $1,000 | Harkin, Tom |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD M BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
HEALTH SOUTH | 2/2/1999 | $2,000 | American Renewal PAC |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD M BIRMINGHAM, AL 35243 |
11/30/1999 | -$1,000 | Hatch, Orrin G | |
| SCRUSHY, RICHARD MR BIRMINGHAM, AL 35242 |
9/22/2002 | $1,000 | Johnson, Nancy L |
Precisely.