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InternetNews March 15, 2005 Tim Gray |
Ebbers Found Guilty Bernard Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO, is found guilty on fraud charges in connection with accounting scandal behind the collapse of Worldcom. |
InternetNews February 7, 2005 Tim Gray |
Former WorldCom Exec Details Accounting Fraud During ongoing fraud trial, Scott Sullivan tells jurors that ex-CEO Bernard Ebbers encouraged him to cook the books at the telecom. |
InternetNews August 11, 2005 Tim Gray |
WorldCom Finance Boss Gets Five Years The government's key witness in the biggest fraud scandal in history is spared a long sentence. |
InternetNews August 10, 2005 Tim Gray |
WorldCom Execs Face Sentencing Former execs learn how much time they will serve for their roles in the telecom's massive fraud. |
InternetNews January 26, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Ebbers' Fraud Trial Under Way Defense for former CEO of failed WorldCom seeks to point finger at others in accounting fraud trial. |
InternetNews March 21, 2005 Tim Gray |
Tightening Honchos' White Collars The WorldCom verdict, along with legislation regulating on corporate accounting practices, has sent a clear signal to company bosses. |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 Bill Mann |
WorldCom's Ebbers Surrenders WorldCom's CFO finally gives up the goods on the top man in an $11 billion fraud case. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2005 Seth Jayson |
Big Bummer for Bernie "I didn't do it," doesn't work for ex-WorldCom czar Bernie Ebbers. He could get up to 85 years. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2005 Seth Jayson |
Ebbers: I Don't Know Nothin' WorldCom's ex-CEO claims he had no idea about the massive accounting fraud. The empire's last proxy statement is a stark lesson in the kind of abject corporate governance that any smart investor should avoid. |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2005 Rich Smith |
Sullivan Does the Electric Slide The WorldCom CFO gets off easy. His victims won't be so lucky. Yes, once caught, he helped the government catch a bigger fish -- and for that he got his deal. |
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 Jane Sasseen |
White-Collar Crime: Who Does Time? Corporate criminals are punished more harshly today than in the '80s, but hands-off executives may still face better odds. |
BusinessWeek December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
InternetNews January 6, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Report: WorldCom Class-Action Accord Near Former directors said to settle a suit stemming from accounting fraud for a total of $54 million. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Ebbers on CEO Death Row Ebbers gets no mercy: received a 25-year sentence (and there is no parole in the federal system). It's about time a clear message was sent. Hopefully, many CEOs will now think twice before engaging in illicit conduct. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers. |
CFO February 2008 Katz & Homer |
WorldCom Whistle-blower Cynthia Cooper What Cynthia Cooper was feeling and thinking as she took the steps that, as it turned out, would change Corporate America. |
CFO February 1, 2006 Kate O'Sullivan |
The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO. |
CFO Alix Nyberg |
Executive Indictments Prosecutors looking to pin corporate scandals on the top dog often press other executives for information that could prove a case against the CEO in exchange for leniency for the informers. Finance chiefs facing criminal sentencing have traditionally jumped at the offer. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Ebbers: Killing 'Em Softly WorldCom's ex-CEO says his acts of kindness earn him a shorter sentence. Bernie may indeed have been a good buddy to some, but shareholders weren't on the list. |
CFO July 1, 2004 Joseph McCafferty |
Extreme Makeover How Robert Blakely and an army of accountants turned fraud-ridden WorldCom into squeaky-clean MCI. |
CFO May 1, 2005 Kris Frieswick |
What Does Your CEO Really Know? How much do chief executives know about company finances? We asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss's finance IQ. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Will WorldCom Rise Again? Is there any hope for WorldCom? The erstwhile telecommunications darling of Wall Street money managers seems to have lost its footing... |
CFO January 1, 2005 |
Blame It on Boca The house of former WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan has been languishing on the booming Boca market... CPA of the Month... CFOs on the move... |
CFO July 1, 2004 |
Canary Chorus At least a dozen former finance executives are preparing to sing for prosecutors... NASA still hasn't found that $2 billion... CFOs on the move... |
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Michael Hickins |
'Justice is Served' to Nacchio Did the former Qwest CEO miss an opportunity to save himself some jail time? |
CFO April 1, 2003 Julia Homer |
They ARE Out to Get You So far, relatively few executives have gone to jail for white-collar crimes. That may be about to change. |
CFO June 1, 2003 |
The Plan of Plan B's Do plan B accounting firms present a real threat to the Big Four?... Master of Science in Financial Engineering program at Kent State University began trading derivatives on a simulated trading floor... Gov fails audit... Directors getting paid more... etc. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2004 Phil Wohl |
MCI Exits Bankruptcy Can the former telecommunications industry giant be competitive? |
Salon.com July 13, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Capitalists without a clue Once all-seeing captains of industry, America's CEOs are now playing the Sgt. Schultz dumbo card, braying "I know no-thing, no-thing!" |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Break the Law, Earn $200K Former corporate crooks are sought after on the lecture circuit, with one, Walter Pavlo, poised to make nearly $200,000 for telling others about his malfeasance. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Kate Plourd |
CSI Pennsylvania A Pennsylvania district attorney uses Villanova accounting students to help root out financial crimes. |
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Mike France |
Courtroom Strategies On Trial Recent high-profile verdicts have prosecutors and defense attorneys rewriting their playbooks. |
InternetNews September 1, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Search Buzz: What's Next For Danny Sullivan? Search Engine Watch founder moves on, sparking industry chatter on whether he'll launch his own Search Engine Strategies conferences. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back You say you want a TiVo-lution... And you think your kids want all of the expensive toys?... Weak end at Bernie's... |
CFO August 1, 2006 DeMars & McCafferty |
Robert Schiffner, CFO of Campbell's Soup A profile of the CFO: Hitting the books... First job in a suit... Favorite job... Going Once... Going Twice... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Ma Bell Means Business? AT&T focuses on declining business customers -- again. It reported second-quarter earnings that doubled the consensus estimate ($0.14 vs. $0.07 a share), yet shares dropped more than 2%. |
CFO September 1, 2002 Lori Calabro |
I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable. |
CFO October 1, 2002 Julia Homer |
How Did We Get Here? Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here's hoping we don't do it again. |
InternetNews March 2, 2004 Alexander Wolfe |
Search Guru Sees Multiple Engines Blooming Google won't be the only game in town, as niche players vie for a voice in ongoing 'search wars,' expert predicts. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2005 Tim Beyers |
The Real Price of Spam A 30-year-old spammer is sentenced to nine years in prison. How will that compare to Bernie Ebbers' fate? He gets sentenced June 13 for an $11 billion fraud that bilked millions of investors. The feeling is that he won't be asked to serve nine years, let alone nine months. |
Sports Illustrated March 6, 2001 Kostya Kennedy |
Small Wonder Diminutive Steve Sullivan has become a big-time scorer for the Chicago Blackhawks... |
Salon.com June 5, 2001 Michelangelo Signorile |
My story was ethical Writer Andrew Sullivan's pronouncements on AIDS and other gay issues made his personal life fair game... |
Salon.com June 2, 2001 Cliff Rothman |
In defense of Andrew Sullivan Whatever discrepancies exist between his public words and his private actions, the attempt to smear him sexually is a vendetta masquerading as journalism... |
CFO February 1, 2008 Julia Homer |
Bending the Rules The world of corporate finance is not known for its flexibility, but that's what has been tested lately. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 David J. Drucker |
Dangers, Opportunities and Strengths Financial advisers need to dig much deeper and provide life planning if they truly want to serve and keep their clients. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 Seth Jayson |
What's That Smell? Follow closely corporate scandal if you want to know where not to invest. Stay informed. Read the financials, especially the footnotes. |
BusinessWeek April 21, 2011 Ryan Flinn |
Social Media: A New Jury Selection Tool Web-savvy lawyers and legal consultants are scouring social media to investigate jurors' backgrounds and biases. |
CFO March 1, 2005 Kate O'Sullivan |
Flashbacks: 20 Years of Finance Two tumultuous decades, from Treadway and Black Monday, to reengineering and ''irrational exuberance,'' to Reg FD and Sarbanes-Oxley. |
Salon.com January 2, 2001 David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
Salon.com June 27, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
The gang that couldn't loot straight The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market. |