#Person1#: Can you believe the headlines?
#Person2#: What are you reading?
#Person1#: I'm reading about Michael Milliken, the Bond King.
#Person2#: Didn't he sell worthless stocks to people or something? He got arrested for that, didn't he?
#Person1#: He got arrested all right.
#Person2#: If I remember, he got off with a light sentence. Something like three years in a minimum-security prison.
#Person1#: 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.
#Person2#: I think the government fined him a small amount, and he kept the rest in his foreign bank accounts. He's still a millionaire.
#Person1#: 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.
#Person2#: 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.
#Person1#: Yup, you got it. Criminals in America do a lot better if they're white-collar thieves.
#Person2#: So what's Michael Milliken up to these days?
#Person1#: He's giving lectures on business at colleges.
#Person1# and #Person2# talk about Michael Milliken who sold worthless stock to people but got away with a light sentence and is still a millionaire. They're angry that white-collar thieves end up a lot better than some poor robbers.
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