[speaker001:] Can you believe the headlines?
[speaker002:] What are you reading?
[speaker001:] I'm reading about Michael Milliken, the Bond King.
[speaker002:] Didn't he sell worthless stocks to people or something? He got arrested for that, didn't he?
[speaker001:] He got arrested all right.
[speaker002:] If I remember, he got off with a light sentence. Something like three years in a minimum-security prison.
[speaker001:] Yup, that's him. He made millions of dollars selling bonds to people and ended up with a pile of cash when they became useless.
[speaker002:] I think the government fined him a small amount, and he kept the rest in his foreign bank accounts. He's still a millionaire.
[speaker001:] That's the kind of thing in America that gets me mad. Some guy pulls off a stock scheme and makes millions while spending the bare minimum sentence in jail.
[speaker002:] I know. And some poor guy that robs a liquor store makes $ 500 at most and ends up in jail for five to ten years.
[speaker001:] Yup, you got it. Criminals in America do a lot better if they're white-collar thieves.
[speaker002:] So what's Michael Milliken up to these days?
[speaker001:] He's giving lectures on business at colleges.