Glad to see justice served
I was happy to hear on the news this afternoon that Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling got 24 years in prison for his part in the largest corporate fraud in history.
I don't expect that other CEOs or white collar criminals are going to learn a damn thing, except not to get caught, and I suppose it's cold comfort to the thousands of workers that lost their retirement savings, the investors who lost billions and the many customers who got bilked by Enron to see Skilling get a sentence that means he's going to be in his 70s before he tastes freedom again. But that's justice at work, for better or worse.
What galls me, though, is that this guy gets to sit at home under house arrest until a judge tells him when to show up to start serving his sentence. Let the rotting in prison begin.