While Ebbers has kept a low profile since he was indicted last March, he has always maintained his innocence. "Bernie Ebbers never sought to mislead investors, never sought to improperly manipulate ...

Bernie Ebbers finally hit his number last week. Or, more precisely, his number hit him. Eighty-five years in prison, potentially. Convicted on nine counts of securities fraud, conspiracy and making ...

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The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. Bernard Ebbers was 78. The ...

And, since accountability rises within an organization, Bernie Ebbers becomes accountable." Broyles, who was in charge of corporate communications for WorldCom for two years after it acquired WilTel, ...

Oklahoma Attorney General W.A. Drew Edmondson told a judge yesterday that he is considering dropping fraud charges against former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers to avoid interfering ...

An oldie but a goodie: Bernard “Bernie” Ebbers helped cook a whole lot of books during his stint as the top executive at Worldcom. Never heard of Worldcom? In the 1990s, it was one of the largest ...

As former WorldCom boss Bernie Ebbers answers fraud charges in Oklahoma, experts say prosecutors elsewhere may feel pressure to more aggressively pursue charges against top executives at Enron Corp.

There are new allegations Friday about who knew what about WorldCom's "cooked books." Before taking the fifth earlier this week, former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers told a House Investigative committee ...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers, the hard-charging executive who turned a sleepy Mississippi phone carrier into an industry giant, has been indicted in connection with an $11 ...