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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.
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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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CFO July 1, 2004 Joseph McCafferty	Extreme Makeover How Robert Blakely and an army of accountants turned fraud-ridden WorldCom into squeaky-clean MCI.
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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.
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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!"
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The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Seth Jayson	Good Riddance to Bad Rigas Adelphia's Rigases engaged in a host of accounting frauds, including hiding debt and inflating margins by capitalizing costs that should have been expensed. The remaining bits of the firm will be acquired by Time-Warner and Comcast.
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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?
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Rosenbush & Haddad	Commentary: MCI Is under a New Cloud, but It Can Weather the Storm While the allegations could slow down the timetable for getting out of bankruptcy, there's little chance that those plans will be derailed.
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BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 Brian Grow	Commentary: Bring Fund Managers on Board Though known for voracious profit hunting, these smart-money gurus can bring considerable advantages to a corporate board of directors.
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