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Ebbers guilty - Ex-WorldCom chairman guilty on all nine counts in massive accounting fraud.
CNN ^
| 3/15/2005
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Posted on 03/15/2005 9:31:26 AM PST by Daus
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, was found guilty Tuesday for his role in the mammoth accounting scandal that brought the company down two and half years ago.
A federal jury in New York, on its eighth day of deliberations, convicted Ebbers on all nine counts that he helped mastermind a $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom, now known as MCI.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; ebbers; worldcom
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:31:29 AM PST
by
Daus
To: Daus
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:32:03 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: TXBSAFH
Fantastic. Now hang the son of a bitch.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:32:40 AM PST
by
zarf
To: Daus
Wow... guilty of everything. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Bernie is going away for a long time.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:33:40 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: Daus
Great, now let them get Ken Lay!!
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:34:32 AM PST
by
marvlus
To: advance_copy
85 years is what he eligible for. I hope people will stop complainging that Martha got a couple months. :)
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:34:43 AM PST
by
Daus
To: Daus
FOX NEWS ALERT
Bernie Ebbers from Worldcom found guilty of ALL counts
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:34:55 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Question to the Media/Press ... Why are you hiding the Eason Jordan tapes ????)
To: Daus
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:31 AM PST
by
mhking
(Do not mess with dragons, for thou art crunchy & good with ketchup...)
To: Daus
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:35 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: zarf
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:50 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: Mo1
Everyone sounds so surprised
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:51 AM PST
by
soccer_linux_mozilla
(I believe in the potential of Open Source software: Linux, Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice,etc)
To: Daus; goldensky; gulfcoast6; MamaB; skaterboy; sgent; selucreh; RebelDS; The Loan Arranger; ...
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:55 AM PST
by
WKB
(You can half the good and double the bad people say about themselves.)
To: Daus
I wonder who will be the first knee jerk Republican to say that Ebbers was only found guilty because of class envy?
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:36:10 AM PST
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: Daus
convicted on all nine counts...
That's gonna leave a mark.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:36:34 AM PST
by
KidGlock
(W-1)
To: Mo1
This is refreshing. Justice prevails.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:36:44 AM PST
by
SE Mom
(God Bless our troops.)
To: Daus
Guilty on all 9 counts. Will be 85 years in jail. Stupid, stupid man. Had a good career, nice job, nice life. Threw it all away simply because he got greeeeedy.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:37:19 AM PST
by
CitizenM
(An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II)
To: TXBSAFH
May the crook be punished to the max...this was flagrant!
To: KC_Conspirator
Won't be me. :) Incompetence is no defense.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:37:43 AM PST
by
Daus
To: Daus
More evidence that the 1990's was the real Decade of Greed and Deciet.
To: Daus
Cleaning up the Klintoon 'Decade-of-Greed' Bump.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:39:07 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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