Harvey Pitt on the Enron verdict

The fact that significant and highly credible companies engaged in misconduct of the rankest sort, pulling the wool over the eyes not just of investors but of analysts, journalists and regulators, is a very sorry chapter in our history, and one that deserves the right type of burial. 

~ Harvey L. Pitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, "White Collar Crime's New Milestone," Washington Post, May 26, 2006