Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers Branded Liar by Prosecutors
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Former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive  Bernard Ebbers repeatedly lied to investors, violating their  trust and costing them billions of dollars, a prosecutor  charged on Tuesday as Ebbers' fraud trial opened.
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The former finance chief of WorldCom Inc. testified yesterday he worked with chief executive Bernard Ebbers to falsify the company's books, describing his former boss as a micromanager fanatical about controlling expenses.
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A federal judge Tuesday delayed the trial of former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers until January, granting his lawyers more time to prepare their defense.
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Bernie Ebbers' closest associate claims the former WorldCom boss was directly implicated in a $11bn fraud at the company.
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Lawyers for Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, won the right to introduce personal details about the prosecution's main witness.
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The WorldCom employee who uncovered a massive accounting fraud tells the full, twisting tale in a new book
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Two men at the heart of corporate  greed scandals in America paid the price on Tuesday, as a judge  sentenced former Enron Corp. executive Andrew Fastow to prison  and Bernard Ebbers, once the chief executive of highflying  WorldCom Inc. began serving a 25-year sentence.
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A defense lawyer played two audiotapes of WorldCom's former chief in court yesterday in hopes of convincing jurors that Bernard Ebbers knew too little about the company's accounting to have overseen the $11 billion fraud that drove it into bankruptcy.
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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 federal appeals court in New York on  Friday affirmed the conviction of former WorldCom Inc. Chief  Executive Bernard Ebbers for orchestrating an $11 billion  accounting fraud that led to the largest U.S. bankruptcy.
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Business & money: Â· Former Independent chief denies fraud chargesÂ· Company's accounts were a 'mystery quagmire'
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The superlatives, firsts and continuing fights over WorldCom are a big reason that the Bernard Ebbers trial is being called the granddaddy of all fraud cases.
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Lawyers for former WorldCom  Chief  Executive Bernard Ebbers are seeking immunity for two witnesses  who they believe could clear their client of fraud charges  related to the company's $11 billion accounting scandal,  according to court papers filed on Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Bernard J. Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, who was convicted of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud.
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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.
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New York (Oct. 20, 2004) - A federal judge has granted defense lawyers&#39; request to delay the trial of former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers by two months, according to published reports.
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Two men at the heart of corporate   greed scandals in America paid the price on Tuesday, as a judge   sentenced former Enron Corp. executive Andrew Fastow to prison   and Bernard Ebbers, once the chief executive of highflying   WorldCom Inc. began serving a 25-year sentence.