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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 ...

While many may argue that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines aren't a perfect model for determining a sentence, Ebbers' 25-year sentence, the toughest yet in this post-Enron string of corporate fraud ...

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 ...