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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 ...
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.
MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States , after AT&T .
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.
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 ...
In case 1, Bernard Ebbers, CEO of WorldCom, rose from nothing to become a "telecom cowboy," before the 1990s downfall of WorldCom [7] impacted thousands of investors. In case 2, Joseph Medawar is a television producer creating an action adventure series based on real-life national security cases, but the show is a scam to defraud investors of ...
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
Scott D. Sullivan is the former chief financial officer, secretary, treasurer, and a board member of WorldCom, who was convicted as part of WorldCom's $3.8 billion accounting fraud, at the time the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history.