If there were justice in the world, we could all sit back and relax, knowing that Enron executives got what they deserved for their corruption and mismanagement. The problem is, Enr

on's collapse has put thousands of innocent Americans out of work and wiped out the retirement portfolios of thousands more. Here's what happened.

When Enron stock took a nose dive last fall, its corporate captains decided not to go down with the ship. They and their top investors sold their stock while hiding the true financial condition of the company from everyone else. In fact, Lay lied to Enron's small investors, telling them that the company's future had never looked brighter. As if that's not bad enough, after years of encouraging their employees to invest their retirement savings almost exclusively in Enron stock, Enron leaders banned those same employees from selling that stock even as the prices plummeted and while they themselves were bai

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