Dickhead(s) of the Week - Follow-up

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Remember Enron? It went under thanks to the greed of its leaders. Remember one leader named Kenneth Lay? He died. Remember the other leader named Jeffrey Skilling? Today he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for executing massive fraud on investors and employees.

Only Bernard Ebbers has received a longer sentence for corporate fraud than Skilling. Bernie wins, 25 years to 24. The highly-competitive Skilling must be burning up about that. On the other hand, Skilling has a better chance of surviving his prison sentence than Ebbers. Ebbers is probably burning up about that.

It's possible that you might hear pundits, commentators, colleagues, and jackasses stating that 24 years is too harsh a sentence for corporate fraud, "it's not like he killed someone," etc. Those pundits, commentators, colleagues, and jackasses will be wrong. The sentence is, in fact, lenient, when you think of all the people hosed by this Dickhead's massive fraud.

Dickhead becomes Shitbird... Ah, the cycle of life...