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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: American Spirit who wrote (420049)6/29/2003 12:24:02 AM
From: Glenn Petersen  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Lay is a crook and deserves to go to prison, but you can't fault other boards he served on, colleges and companies, for his crimes at Enron.

I concur and the same principle should apply to those individuals who had contact with Ken Lay yet had no knowledge that Enron's success was built on fraudulent accounting. Do you think that Bush, Cheney and Gramm and Baker were aware of the fraudulent accounting? Arthur Andersen was signing off on the damn audit reports.

The so-called Ken Lay-George Bush friendship is a disingenuous issue. You can bet that Bush would love to put Ken Lay in jail. Are you aware that the U.S. Labor Department filed a suit against Lay on Friday?

The issue you should be talking is who is best qualified to deal with corporate malfeasance. Two years ago, this would have been a hard sell for Bush. Not anymore. A lot of reforms have been put into place and the Bush Justice Department will probably end up prosecuting more white collar criminals during his first term than the Clinton Justice Department prosecuted during its full eight years.
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