Echoing the president's vow "to hold people accountable," Mr. Pitt said corporate crooks and charlatans would be doing jail time, and that too is fine.

That's what corporate crooks must believe, at least until the government shows up with an arrest warrant.

Knight began by saying that he had been painted as a "corporate crook, the perfect corporate villain for these times."

Mary Jo White made a name for herself with tough cases against corporate crooks and terrorists.

The sight of a corporate crook being led away in handcuffs, Giuliani-style, would do far more to restore confidence in Wall Street than any more presidential blather.

It was clear to me that America was indeed ready to take on the corporate crooks who had made our lives, our homes, and our workplaces less safe.

In September 2002, Fortune magazine released a staggering list of these corporate crooks who made off like bandits while their com-pany's stock prices had dropped 75 percent or more between 1999 and 2002.

Fortune's report on corporate crooks, "You Bought, They Sold," was published September 2, 2002.

If he thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he's way out of touch.

In the wake of Enron and WorldCom, it seemed as if no prison sentence could be too long for corporate crooks.