WorldCom's disgraced former chief, Bernard Ebbers, made fun of people who used e-mail.
But WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers has said he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.
Bernard Ebbers , 64, received what amounts to a life sentence of 25 years for his part in the WorldCom scandal.
But WorldCom's CEO Bernard Ebbers has said that he will scuttle the entire Sprint purchase before he will spin off Uunet.
Its former chairman and chief executive, Bernard Ebbers , was sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison, though he is appealing the conviction.
Perhaps indicative of what's to come, the government's convictions in the Bernard Ebbers and MarthaStewartMartha Stewart cases started with convincing testimony by investor relations witnesses.
Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom, Jeffrey Skilling of Enron and Mark Swartz and L. Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco International Ltd. all testified and were convicted of various crimes.
Jeffrey Skilling, 55, Enron's former chief executive, is serving a 24-year sentence while former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers, 67, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2006.
Winnick, like his fellow chairmen Kenneth Lay of Enron and Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom, is expected to say he left the details to others and that he was defrauded as much as anyone.
The man they were referring to was CEO of WorldCom (now MCI) Bernard Ebbers who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy for his role in a massive accounting scandal that led to what was at the time the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
And Matthew Friedrich, principal deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, said that while there had been several high-profile cases against chief executives, naming the conviction of WorldCom 's Bernard Ebbers as one example, criminal cases against hedge fund managers accused of fraud have been rare.
So far, U.S. prosecutors have failed to make a case against former WorldCom (otc: WCOEQ - news - people ) chief Bernard Ebbers , and the Justice Department announced late last year that it would not file criminal charges against Global Crossing 's (otc: GBLXQ - news - people ) Gary Winnick .
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