Saturday, July 22, 2006
Excesses of corporate prosecution should be curbed
Can the Enron era finally be laid to rest, now that important figures have been convicted and Ken Lay, former chairman, has died? Not necessarily. The prosecutors' success has been accompanied by sharp criticism that, in its exuberance to crack down, the Bush administration has engaged in excesses of its own. Some of the government's more aggressive tactics have left serious questions and perhaps a few regrets.
Here are a few proposals to avoid such problems in the next wave of scandals.
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