[geeks] How old am I and where do I come from...

[Geek]

My view is this. CEO's and other management should be held criminally
responsible for their actions as CEO's. If the company commits a crime,
the CEO does the time. Enron has still not been taken to task other then
a few measly congressional hearings in which everyone took the 5th. I
mean is the who idea behind corporate responsibility only an idea of
congress, and when it is broken, is the worst that should happen be a
steamed rant by a couple of big mouth congressmen? I feel there should
be more done, to the leadership of both Enron and WorldCom. they both
committed crimes against the shareholders and employees, and both have
cost many thousands of others jobs, and Enron led to the ultimate death
of Andersen.


Dwight Wallbridge,

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] How old am I and where do I come from...


| On July 16, Bill Bradford wrote:
| > >   Calculators are cheap.  WorldCom's people missed high school
| > > MORALS.  They didn't fuck up...they were THEIVES.
| >
| > I have a feeling people in Accounting were doing what some Suit (tm)
| > told them to do.  "Do this, or find another job."
|
|   Probably.
|
|   I like what Greenspan said today, when speaking of CEOs and
scandals:
|
|   "Although we may not be able to change the character of corporate
| officers, we can change behavior through incentives and
| penalties. That, in my judgment, could dramatically improve the state
| of corporate governance."
|
|   As I paraphrased on another list earlier:
|
|   "These suits will always be crooks, but we can either bribe them
into
| behaving or beat their sleazy asses when they get caught raping
| companies.  That, in my judgment, could dramatically improve the state
| of corporate governance."
|
|        -Dave
|
| --
| Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
| St. Petersburg, FL              your .emacs file is
incomplete." -Joshua Boyd
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