Part VII. Getting Your Money Back
An Adelphia cable installer, immediately after the company’s bankruptcy and the arrest in handcuffs of its top executives for securities fraud, shook his head in astonishment and told me, “My 401(k) is so low that I only hope that I can get back what I put in by the time I retire.”
Lots of people are in this position, and it’s fair that they try to get their money back. It wasn’t the ordinary risk that accompanies investment that caused them to lose their money—it was fraud.
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