Greed isn’t looking so good after fact for Westar execs

Testimony Wednesday in the Kansas City, Kan., federal trial of former Westar Energy executives David Wittig, pictured at left, and Douglas Lake indicated that neither reported any personal use of the company planes over a four-year period. None. This was as they reportedly were treating Westar-owned aircraft like their personal shuttles for travel between Topeka and Europe and the East Coast. How could people so smart do something so dumb?
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. Mister Twister
    Posted July 22, 2005 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    QUIZ?

    The CEO of WalMart makes more in two weeks than the average WalMart floor worker makes in

    A. a year.B. two years.C. a decade.D. a lifetime.

    Answer — D, a lifetime.

    When you have legal robbery, you’d think it’d keep the CEO’s happy, but no, their greed knows no bounds . . .

  2. Jerry Winkelman
    Posted July 22, 2005 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    As WR rate-payers, we also need to know names of Kansas politicians and WR Board members who also flew on these recreational trips at the expense of WR rate-payers and stock owners.

  3. Joe Williams
    Posted July 22, 2005 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

    I think that the Wichita area needs to be independent of Westar.

  4. Mister Twister
    Posted July 23, 2005 at 10:04 am | Permalink

    WHAT, JOE?! You’re saying that the capitalism can’t solve all our problems for us? That there might be such a thing as “fair trade” as well as “free trade”?

    Red letter day on the calendar . . .

  5. Dagett
    Posted July 23, 2005 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    Wanna get really pissed? Westar has rate hearings coming up. Look for something in the 5%-10% range.

    McPherson, Ks has their own power generation plant. They have CHEAP power.

    Do you think Lake and Wittig were as far as the corruption went?