Amidst an overwhelmingly negative media drumbeat, former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling await a jury verdict that could send them to prison for most of the rest of their lives. Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, such matters are handled a bit differently:

The executives in charge of the Dutch retailer Royal Ahold when it plunged into a financial scandal were convicted of fraud on Monday but were sentenced to a fine and no prison time, as judges found they bore little criminal guilt.
The former chief executive, Cees van der Hoeven, and the former chief financial officer, Michiel Meurs, were fined 225,000 euros ($288,000) each and they were given nine-month suspended sentences.
The verdict comes more than three years after Ahold ó which operates grocery stores around the world, including the Stop & Shop and Giant chains ó went to the brink of bankruptcy in February 2003.

An earlier post on the Royal Ahold case is here.
Meanwhile, if the prospect of fairness for Lay and Skilling is simply too difficult to fathom, then how do you square the resolution of the Ahold case with that of this case, this case, or this one?
So it goes as an unattractive cauldron of resentment towards business and wealth continues to produce the lottery-style results of prosecuting corporate crime in America.