Ex-WorldCom Controller Says Ebbers Fretted Over Stock Price
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WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers fretted in a 2001 meeting that all he had worked for "will basically be wiped out" because of the company's sliding stock price, a former WorldCom executive testified Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 -- Gregory L. Reyes, the former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, either masterminded a stock-option backdating scheme designed to defraud investors or fell victim to murky accounting laws and heightened public scrutiny of corporate accounting errors, lawyers...
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By The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 19--Chipmaker Broadcom Corp. said it canceled more than $37 million  in stock options for three former employees after finding that they adjusted  the dates of the options to maximize their value.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday from former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 11 -- In an unusual legal move, a group of Wall Street banks has challenged the settlement announced last week between 10 former WorldCom Inc. directors and plaintiffs in a class-action shareholder lawsuit filed after WorldCom collapsed into bankruptcy court in 2002 following charges of widespread accounting fraud.
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The trials of former WorldCom chairman Bernard J. Ebbers and former Tyco chairman L. Dennis Kozlowski get underway this week, beginning a new round of courtroom confrontations over events that helped write the emphatic end to last decade's investment boom.
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Investors may think so, but this Fool disagrees.
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Court documents show federal prosecutors have told lawyers for former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers that they plan to argue he lied about the telecommunications giant's financial condition in order to get personal loans. -The Washington Post
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Q&A with the driver of Motley Fool CAPS.
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Toll Brothers' CEO triggers some contrarian reflection.
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Sir Philip Watts, the former chairman of Shell, yesterday broke his silence with a blistering attack on the City regulator, which he accused of riding roughshod over his rights and writing a &quot;flawed&quot; report.
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A jury on Wednesday heard a tape in  which former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers  dodged a stock analyst's question by explaining he had studied  sports in college and could not speak to economics "with any  credibility."
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Ex-Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers will start his prison term on 26 September for his role in an $11bn fraud case.
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Former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive  Bernard Ebbers left accounting decisions up to his staff and  never personally cooked the company's books, jurors heard at  his fraud trial on Monday.
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A possible 2001 merger between  WorldCom Inc. and Verizon Communications was scuttled by  internal concerns over accounting tricks at WorldCom, jurors in  the fraud trial of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers were told  on Thursday.
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The crusade against ânaked short sellingâ by Patrick M. Byrne, the head of Overstock.com, may be in the midst of a meltdown.
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Former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive  Bernard Ebbers, informed that accountants would have to inflate  revenue to meet profit expectations, brushed off the warning  and demanded the company "hit our numbers," according to  testimony from the fraud trial's star witness on Tuesday.