Molly Ivins

RELEASE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2003, AND THEREAFTER

AUSTIN, Texas -- I do not think it premature to conclude that the entire financial industry of this country is riddled with fraud. As Allan Sloan of Newsweek observed, this is not a case of "a few bad apples," it's the Cockroach Theory -- you see one, you know there's a whole nest of the nasty maggots.