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Statistics tell us that harsher penalties have little deterrent effect on a holdup man. Top executives, however, understand penalties. If they were sure that criminal fraud would get them 10 to 15 years in a penitentiary, they would think long and hard before committing the kind of deceit that went on at Enron. BILL RICHMOND Carmichael, Calif...
...example of modern American capitalism at its "finest": elected officials being influenced by huge sums of money, top executives making off with millions of dollars and having cozy political relationships, the White House refusing to talk, and regular folks left holding the proverbial bag. For my money, fraud, greed and corruption certainly should bring down a government--but they won't. JAMES P. MORGAN Gardnerville...
...Cowboys. Jennings was scheduled to be on the 1959 plane that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, but gave up his seat to another musician. DIED. VICTOR POSNER, 83, corporate raider who was once one of America's highest-paid executives but was later convicted of tax fraud; in Miami. Over three decades, Posner built an industrial empire worth $4 billion but in 1987 pleaded no-contest to tax evasion charges and was banned in 1993 from serving as an officer in a public company. DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, retired Army lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador...
...detective filed a fraud report with the Harvard University Credit Union...
Yasuo Hamanaka Sumitomo Bank?s chief copper trader racked up losses of $2.6 billion in unauthorized deals over 10 years. He pleaded guilty to forgery and fraud, and is serving eight years in a Japanese prison...