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Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies
Don420 writes "This morning the biggest corporate criminal in modern history, Kenneth Lay, died of a massive coronary before he could receive his sentence. Lay was found guilty of being in charge of the scheme that had many lose their live-savings through a scheme of complex offshore holdings and is to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxely." From the article: "Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 after investigators found it had used partnerships to conceal more than $1 billion in debt and inflate profits. Enron's downfall cost 4,000 employees their jobs and many of them their life savings, and led to billions of dollars of losses for investors."
Speak no ill of the dead, eh? I don't subscribe, sorry. If you're a rat-bastard in life, you don't suddenly become not a rat-bastard just by dying. If his loved ones have to live through the opprobation of the community, well, maybe he should have weighed that in before beginning this whole journey.
The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach
I find it ironic that the crook dies, and this is the current quote at the bottom of /. :::
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides
(I wonder if this will be modded Insigthful, or Interesting... god forbid it's Funny)