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Winstar, Enron, WorldCom...the list of company's swindled by sleazy conartists posing as managers, accountants, lawyers is known. The ill-gotten gains need to be returned and the bums responsible need to be incarcerated for a while so that they can learn that embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and other crimes while defrauding the American people in the process is NOT okay.

I hope AG Ashcroft will take decisive ACTION soon.

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What I point to is more stupidity and arrogance than fraud. This is not to deny that fraud exists, but fraud would not be very effective without gullible individuals running large and valuable institutions.

Was Ebbers a crook, or a jumped-up salesman who really believed he was a great businessman? It's really very hard to say.

I'm afraid that if we starting sending people to jail for being stupid, we're going to have to put a wall around the country and ask the smart people to leave.