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Bernard John Ebbers (August 27, 1941 – February 2, 2020) was a Canadian businessman and the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom. Under his management, WorldCom grew rapidly but collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting irregularities, making it at the time one of the largest accounting scandals in the United States.
Feb 3, 2020 · Bernard J. Ebbers, who built a modest Mississippi phone company into a telecommunications giant, WorldCom, but later went to jail after its collapse in one of the nation’s largest corporate ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, who went to prison in 2006 for his role in an $11 billion accounting fraud case, has died. His death Sunday was confirmed by a statement from his ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, the "telecom cowboy" who spent 13 years in federal prison for his involvement in a notorious $11 billion accounting scandal, died Sunday. He was 78.
Feb 3, 2020 · Ebbers was convicted of securities fraud and other charges in 2005 for his role in a $11 billion accounting fraud that led to WorldCom's bankruptcy. He was released from prison in December 2019 due to severe medical problems and died in February 2020.
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Feb 3, 2020 · Bernard Ebbers, who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant and was convicted in one of the largest U.S. accounting scandals, died on Sunday, his family said in a statement.
Feb 3, 2020 · Bernard J. Ebbers, a telecom executive who grew a small Mississippi firm into the Wall Street juggernaut WorldCom, only for its gains to be unmasked in an $11 billion corporate accounting...
