While Ebbers has kept a low profile since he was indicted last March, he has always maintained his innocence. "Bernie Ebbers never sought to mislead investors, never sought to improperly manipulate ...

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As former WorldCom boss Bernie Ebbers answers fraud charges in Oklahoma, experts say prosecutors elsewhere may feel pressure to more aggressively pursue charges against top executives at Enron Corp.

And, since accountability rises within an organization, Bernie Ebbers becomes accountable." Broyles, who was in charge of corporate communications for WorldCom for two years after it acquired WilTel, ...

Bernie Ebbers finally hit his number last week. Or, more precisely, his number hit him. Eighty-five years in prison, potentially. Convicted on nine counts of securities fraud, conspiracy and making ...

The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78. The ...

Oklahoma Attorney General W.A. Drew Edmondson told a judge yesterday that he is considering dropping fraud charges against former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers to avoid interfering ...

An oldie but a goodie: Bernard “Bernie” Ebbers helped cook a whole lot of books during his stint as the top executive at Worldcom. Never heard of Worldcom? In the 1990s, it was one of the largest ...

Jones bestowed the sentence on Ebbers in her matter-of-fact manner, saying: "I find that a sentence of anything less would not reflect the seriousness of this crime." She also made swift work of a ...

WASHINGTON - Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was charged Tuesday with falsifying the books at the long-distance company in the biggest corporate fraud case in American history, and his chief ...