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To: Jet.Screamer who wrote (100984)	1/20/2008 5:39:14 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 306849

agreed the problem is proving who knew what, when, and right now the justice dept is overreaching, charging all kinds of things so I am not comfortable giving them this kind of leverage. Do you think somebody should be convicted for fraud for forward looking statements? How about if you are a GM of Enron's broadband incubation division and your job is to build a technology platform as more of an engineering role? How about if you are running an employee stock option plan and every accounting firm tells you to pick the low of the quarter for employees and put them in the footnotes with a black scholes multiple, adding up to more expense than if they were counted as in-the-money? These are all things that have been criminalized by this justice dept and this "related parties" legislation is yet another tool to overreach. I am sure all of this is not lost on the supremes. People don't knowingly commit felonies unless they have a direct and substantial benefit, that is obvious to all but the people who craft this type of legal case. They want to be able to criminally charge everybody for every gray area in business.