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The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain WorldCom's stock ...
Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant who formerly served as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom.In 2002, Cooper and her team of auditors worked together in secret and often at night to investigate and unearth $3.8 billion in fraud at WorldCom [1] which, at that time, was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
Bernard Ebbers, who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant and was convicted in one of the largest U.S. accounting scandals, died on Sunday, his family said in a statement. Ebbers ...
Bernard John Ebbers (August 27, 1941 – February 2, 2020) was a Canadian-American businessman and the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom.Under his management, WorldCom grew rapidly but collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting irregularities, making it at the time one of the largest accounting scandals in the United States.
By the time Dominelli pleaded guilty to mail fraud, bankruptcy fraud and income tax evasion in 1985, the government estimated he might have lost $80 million of investors’ money in his Ponzi ...
For the third count of wire fraud against Williamson, he faces prison time of up to 20 years, a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater, and supervised release for ...
The Complaint alleged that the WorldCom Retirement Plan administrators were WorldCom insiders who knew or had reason to know that the price of WorldCom stock was artificially high because public statements concerning the Company's business and prospects were false or misleading to investors. When the facts became public, the stock plummeted ...
A Kentucky man who fraudulently arranged for $4.4 million in loans has been sentenced to nine years and two months in prison. Wavy Curtis Shain, 42, of Nelson County pleaded guilty to fraud and ...