Aside from NPR, where I heard the report, CBS and NBC also carried the same sort of report. Earlier posts in this thread reflect similar experience, possibly from other sources.

Until sentence is imposed, the conviction is tentative. Sad, but that's the way things are, apparently.

Lay clearly sat down with his lawyers and accountants and figured this one out. He'd rather be rich and dead than alive and poor, even if his definition of poor exceeds mine by orders of magnitude.

The moral of the story is that, when we wish to punish white-collar, financially motivated crime, we have to start by depriving the miscreants of their wealth, including that which they may have distributed to their family and friends over the course of their misdeeds.

I'd say limit the combined net worth of them and their family and cronies to $100 for the extent of their sentence. No more Gucci loafers. No more Rolex watches, or even imported balsamic vinegar for their salads. Certainly, no more $10,000 shower curtains for their wives' bathrooms.

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