You and I Should Be ‘Stuck’ Like This
After the Enron Trial, Defense Firm Is Stuck With the Tab.
That’s Carrie Johnson’s Washington Post headline and it makes me chuckle as I drift down through the article, for a couple of reasons. First, it’s kind of a jolt to be led to believe that Jeff Skilling’s lawyers won’t get paid, only to find they have already cashed in to the tune of $40 million and are merely whining about more.
We are a more society.
Johnson’s opener,
“To the list of employees, investors and businesses who suffered financial misfortune in Enron Corp.'s demise, add this one: the law firm defending former chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling.”
Oh, be still my heart, for their financial misfortune.
Anatole France famously said,
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
I don’t know a whole lot about Anatole, but I absolutely love that quote. He was so piercingly correct in that startling observation that they named a countr…