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From: TimF	3/30/2007 12:38:15 PM
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Re: "That's exactly right, you rip off a 7-11 and get 20 years for maybe a couple hundred bucks. You destroy people's lives and pocket hundreds of millions of dollars, and former President Bush will tell all 'Kenny Boy was a fine man'.... Regards, John" Message 23415263 Well if your robbing a 7-11 its probably armed robbery. It might be better to compare sentences for shoplifting to the white collar crimes. (Yes shoplifting will be for a much lower amount then most white collar crimes, but so will knocking off 7-11s) As for Ken Lay, if he didn't die he was facing far more than just a slap on the wrist. Skilling got 24 years and 4 months, as well as having to forfeit $45mil (out of an estimated $55 mil total wealth, with most of the rest frozen by the government, and with debt to his lawyers of more than $30mil so he's basically wiped out). Ebbers got 25 years. None of which necessairly means that overall "white collar" crimes don't have to low of sentences compared to other crimes, but its not necessarily wildly disproportionate.

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