Headlines Illustrate Need for Enforcement
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The headlines in the Business section on Jan. 6 include “Tenet Ex-Exec Pleads Guilty in Referral Case,” “WorldCom Directors Settle Lawsuit,” “Scrushy [of HealthSouth] Jury Selection Is Underway” and “McKesson Aims to Keep Probe Secret.”
Yet according to “Chamber Chief Attacks Spitzer” that same day, enforcement efforts are the problem, not the replacement of ethics with greed by the chamber’s membership.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce? It’s as useless at self- policing as the medical boards whose members are whining about malpractice costs -- but that’s another story.
Kelley S. Willis
Venice
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