Enron Executives Should Pay Restitution

I would like to see Congress go after the Enron executives who’ve hoarded millions and force them to make restitution out of their own pockets to the company’s employees and stockholders who have lost everything.

Barbara Mitchell

Bakersfield

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There is no denying the extreme hardship that most Enron retirees will face because of the collapse brought on by highflying and questionable management practices of the corporate offices. My heart, along with the hearts of millions of others, goes out to these victims of corporate misadventure.

Still, I’d like to have been a mouse in the corner of the break rooms and lunchrooms of offices and plants and listened while employees cheered management successes in accumulating these riches, even while the big shots were conspiring to pick my--and your--pockets through whatever loopholes they could find.

Perhaps a contributing factor to Enron filing bankruptcy might have been a slowdown in business created if Enron employees were busy with personal projects: counting profits, planning vacations, hiring financial advisors, estate planning and dreaming of tropical beaches and ski chalets.

David J. Sherman

Lodi, Calif.