January 7, 2006

Soul-selling on a Massive Scale

By Bob Weir
Since the Enron Corporation's spectacular scandal ushered in an era of white—collar perp walks and investor outrage, many people may have forgotten that the last chapter is still to be written. On January 17, 2005, Enron founder Kenneth Lay, his CEO successor Jeffrey Skilling, and the company's former top accountant, Richard Causey, will finally go to trial more than four years after the company crumbled, leaving the trio to face a storm cloud of alleged crimes. Because of the size of the company and the complexity of the case, we're told that the government needed time to get their facts in order. If you are among the rarified few who still cling tenaciously to the notion that the laws in our land are applied equally to everyone, Enron's example of capitalistic arrogance should disabuse you of such infantile fantasies. With several mountains of evidence piling up from one continent to another, and thousands of people suffering from the aftershock of perhaps the most damaging...(Read Full Article)