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InternetNews
February 8, 2005
Tim Gray |
Sullivan: Two Sets of Books to 'Hit The Numbers' Prosecutors continue to hammer away at former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers' fraud trial with testimony from finance chief Scott Sullivan.   |
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
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
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
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. |
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
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
December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
Joseph McCafferty |
Extreme Makeover How Robert Blakely and an army of accountants turned fraud-ridden WorldCom into squeaky-clean MCI. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
| 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... |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2005
Philip Durell |
How You Can Profit from Bankruptcy Investors have earned over 50% in six months on bankruptcy survivor MCI. Here's how. |
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!" |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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%. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2005
Brian Grow |
The Kings Of Class Actions Max Berger and Sean Coffey are riding high after making WorldCom's bankers pay up with a $65 million settlement in a class action lawsuit. |
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
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. |
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. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
InternetNews
February 3, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Qwest Said to Bid $6B For MCI The Baby Bell reportedly makes a $6 billion offer for the long-distance specialist, but Verizon is also interested. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Scott Leibs |
The Waiting Is the Hardest Part Hewlett-Packard was quick to sort out the details of the Compaq acquisition, but must now play a waiting game. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2004
Phil Wohl |
MCI Exits Bankruptcy Can the former telecommunications industry giant be competitive? |
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... |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Geoff Lewis |
The Bloody Mess After the Internet Bubble In this excerpt from Blood On The Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors author Charles Gasparino offers two versions of the broker story. |
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. |
CFO
August 1, 2002 |
TGIM A funny name for the erstwhile PwC Consulting... WorldCom gets caught in a storm... executives are asked to swear; securities suits target nontechs... etc. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2005
Suzanne McGee |
Scandal! Corporate governance experts agree that the past two decades have been a particularly fertile period for scandals, generating an abundance of candidates for inclusion in a new series of "Wall Street Most Wanted" playing cards. What motivates the cheaters -- greed, fear or ego? |
CFO
August 1, 2003
David Campbell |
Seeing Is Relieving Oil companies pressured to disclose payments to developing nations... IPO market limps back... Congress may ask CEOs to sign tax returns... investor relations visits Madison Avenue... a candid look inside the WorldCom fraud... etc. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 1, 2005
Katherine Burger |
School for Scandal In banking, it's the CIOs and other technology executives who must figure out how to stretch limited IT resources to provide the documentation, transparency and accountability the new regulations demand. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2006
Nick Kapur |
7 Stock Shakers Here are some market highlights of the past week. 1. The top of the mountain... 2. Kerkorian continues to meddle in the auto world... etc. |
