Monday, October 07, 2002

Middle-class Americans say they want to see greedy, dishonest CEOs punished. But in truth, middle-class Americans are more afraid of boys from the housing projects holding them up in an alley for 20 bucks than they are of Wall Street scoundrels gutting their pensions and portfolios. Boesky, Milken and Keating collectively swindled more than $500 million. Yet the three of them together served less than 10 years. I know a man serving 20 years for an $800 heist.

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