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WorldCom: Disconnected

In: Greed And Corporate Failure

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  • Stewart Hamilton
  • Alicia Micklethwait

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CEOs around the world slept less easy after 13 July 2005 when Bernard J. Ebbers, founder and former chief executive of WorldCom, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating the biggest corporate fraud in US history. For the 63-year-old Ebbers, a man in poor health, this – as the judge acknowledged – was effectively a life sentence. Coming hard on the heels of the tough sentences handed down to John Regas, the 80-year-old founder of Adelphi Communications (15 years), and his son Timothy (20 years) for the fraud in that company, it demonstrated clearly the US government’s determination to crack down on white-collar crime

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  • Stewart Hamilton & Alicia Micklethwait, 2006. "WorldCom: Disconnected," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Greed And Corporate Failure, chapter 0, pages 59-80, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50275-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-50275-8_4
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