Mrs. Keating’s Plea for Her Jailed Husband

As a person who has seen the disappearance of a major portion of our planned retirement through no fault of our own, I find it difficult to have a sense of moral outrage at the incarceration of Keating.

Where was Mrs. Keating’s moral outrage when her husband was stealing our old-age security? Why did he let people at the bank push the sale of worthless bonds under the guise of secure investments? Why was my wife told that, in the event of a failure, the bondholders would be the first to be paid? Why was there a new issue of bonds at the very time the empire was collapsing?

Yes, Mrs. Keating, your husband belongs in jail, and I have no pity for his circumstance.

EVAN M. STERNBERG

Northridge