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In 1995, the company name was changed to LDDS World Com and relocated to
Clinton, Mississippi.
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Controls implemented
A small team of internal auditors at
WorldCom worked together, often at night
and secretly, to investigate the fraud.
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$3.8 billion
Worth of fraud was revealed
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What happened to the
fraudsters?
CEO Bernard Ebbers CFO Scott Sullivan David Myers Arthur Andersen
was sentenced to 25 received a five-year (Director of General withdrew its audit
years in prison. jail sentence after Accounting) opinion for 2001.
pleading guilty and resigned.
testifying against
Ebbers.
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Financial Impact
⬡ The company due to bankruptcy has
$5.7 billion in debt and $6 billion in
cash.
⬡ The newly formed MCI agreed to pay
shareholders and holders $500 million
in cash and $250 million in MCI shares.
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