Why No Jail Time in Ralphs Hiring Case?

Regarding the Ralphs grocery chain’s guilt for violating “federal laws regarding identity fraud, conspiracy, pension reporting and record keeping for the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service” (“Guilty Plea in Ralphs Labor Case,” July 27):

Why are the executives who ordered those actions not spending time in federal prison?

In a similar vein of corporate abuse, executives at WellPoint Inc. must feel very good (“WellPoint’s Profit Rises 34% as Premiums and Fees Surge,” July 27).

It is sad to realize that the health insurer’s executives and salespeople, most of whom haven’t spent a day in medical school, are profiteering on the heart disease and cancer of other people. Shame on them all.

Bill D. Holder

Cypress