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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
When you see the facts of what these people did you wonder why it took so long to get them into prison and why the relatives and families are not as penniless as the people they ripped off.
The victims got left with nothing, the criminals families live in luxury on stolen money and the criminals will all be writing books while in summer camp, whoops I meant open prison.
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I wondered the same thing - what's the delay, then by chance, a person I know happened to end up on the investigation side of elements of Enron. Apart from the documentary/physical evidence, - that was massive alone and took literally years to work thru, they then wanted to get some "talkers" lined up to totally secure the prosecution - and think that happened in the end - ie they pressured the small fish and prosecuted them (often with deals) and headed higher up the tree to Lay, Skilling and other actual corp officers.
The lady I know does not normally do fraud stuff, but has the same attitude to her area of "expertise" - ie.. no hurry... let the rope hang out... possibly for years. Meantime all known associates/contacts are well-known (and can even be friends
) - then when the time is ripe, move in and capture a "snapshot" of events on that day. The "snapshot" usually shows elements of almost all activity - if they are "at it" - the conviction follows.