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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.   |
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
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
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
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. |
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
January 1, 2005 |
Ten Questions for Barry Minkow An interview with the current head of the Fraud Discovery Institute who also served more than seven years in prison for the infamous ZZZZ Best scam. This month his new book, Cleaning Up, debuts. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Woellert & France |
Corporate Cases: Time To Cut A Deal? A new ruling could empower white collar defendants -- until Congress rewrites sentencing rules. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers. |
| 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
July 26, 2004
Mike France |
Corporate America's New Accountability When companies break the law, the first thing chief executives typically do is plead ignorance. But in a post-Enron world, "I didn't know" won't cut it. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Julia Homer |
Three Blind Mice Just when you think there is absolutely nothing more to say on the topic of financial scandals, something new happens. Ultimately, bogus numbers don't work. Neither should bogus CEOs. |
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? |
Salon.com
October 17, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Ignoring the poor Poverty is on the rise, but the media is consumed with sniper attacks and rumors of war. |
BusinessWeek
July 1, 2010
Caroline Winter |
Who Could Gain from a High-Court Ruling The Supreme Court's recent ruling will make it harder to battle white-collar crime. Which jailed execs stand to benefit? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
As CEOs Fall Off Their Pedestals, Is a Leadership Crisis Looming? In recent months, the reputations of several once-soaring corporate captains have crashed to earth. Does their fall, along with the demise of other prominent CEOs, constitute a new crisis in business leadership? |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Michael J. Mandel |
A Few Bad Apples Spoil...Not Much Corporate scandals in the U.S. normally only impact a single company, and the U.S. regulatory system has been more than willing to deal with corporate excess and fraud. That's tough for other countries to match, especially those with entrenched elites controlling entire industries |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Mike France |
Courtroom Strategies On Trial Recent high-profile verdicts have prosecutors and defense attorneys rewriting their playbooks. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2004
Paul Elliott |
Profiting With the Insiders Insider ownership, for one, is easy to screen for, but more nuanced than you might think. Read on for a breakdown of this often misunderstood attribute of the true hidden gem. |
Fast Company
December 2002
Kreamer & Cramer |
Culture Interview with Jim Cramer on failings of CEOs. |
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. |
Fast Company
September 2005 |
Cowards of the Year They came, they saw, they caved: These antiheroes turned their backs on what they know is right. |
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%. |
