Bernie Ebbers, the now-convicted mastermind behind the biggest corporate bankruptcy and accounting fraud in history, may serve the rest of his life in prison.

Ebbers decided to take the chance of a jury trial and lost big time.

Today, federal prosecutors formally recommended that he receive a life sentence for his crimes.

Ken Lay and Jeff Skillon, both under indictment for Enron-related misdeeds, were reportedly busily cleaning out their drawers.

Now here's serious punishment for serious crime.

You want to clean up corrupt government?

Hand out some serious sentences like this.