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Ebbers guilty - Ex-WorldCom chairman guilty on all nine counts in massive accounting fraud.
CNN ^ | 3/15/2005 | NA

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; ebbers; worldcom
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1 posted on 03/15/2005 9:31:29 AM PST by Daus
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To: Daus

GOOD!!!


2 posted on 03/15/2005 9:32:03 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: TXBSAFH

Fantastic. Now hang the son of a bitch.


3 posted on 03/15/2005 9:32:40 AM PST by zarf
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Wow... guilty of everything. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Bernie is going away for a long time.
4 posted on 03/15/2005 9:33:40 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Daus

Great, now let them get Ken Lay!!


5 posted on 03/15/2005 9:34:32 AM PST by marvlus
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To: advance_copy

85 years is what he eligible for. I hope people will stop complainging that Martha got a couple months. :)


6 posted on 03/15/2005 9:34:43 AM PST by Daus
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To: Daus

FOX NEWS ALERT

Bernie Ebbers from Worldcom found guilty of ALL counts


7 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 ????)
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To: Daus

Bye, bye, Bernie!


8 posted on 03/15/2005 9:35:31 AM PST by mhking (Do not mess with dragons, for thou art crunchy & good with ketchup...)
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To: Daus

GREAT!!!


9 posted on 03/15/2005 9:35:35 AM PST by kcvl
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To: zarf

Right next to Ken lay.


10 posted on 03/15/2005 9:35:50 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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To: Mo1

Everyone sounds so surprised


11 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)
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To: Daus; goldensky; gulfcoast6; MamaB; skaterboy; sgent; selucreh; RebelDS; The Loan Arranger; ...

Mississippi ping


12 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.)
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To: Daus

I wonder who will be the first knee jerk Republican to say that Ebbers was only found guilty because of class envy?


13 posted on 03/15/2005 9:36:10 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Daus

convicted on all nine counts...

That's gonna leave a mark.


14 posted on 03/15/2005 9:36:34 AM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: Mo1

This is refreshing. Justice prevails.


15 posted on 03/15/2005 9:36:44 AM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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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.


16 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)
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To: TXBSAFH

May the crook be punished to the max...this was flagrant!


17 posted on 03/15/2005 9:37:25 AM PST by an opinion
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To: KC_Conspirator
Won't be me. :) Incompetence is no defense.
18 posted on 03/15/2005 9:37:43 AM PST by Daus
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To: Daus
More evidence that the 1990's was the real Decade of Greed and Deciet.
19 posted on 03/15/2005 9:39:04 AM PST by NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961
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Cleaning up the Klintoon 'Decade-of-Greed' Bump.
20 posted on 03/15/2005 9:39:07 AM PST by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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