The Leonard Lopate Show

This kind of dishonesty and regular people losing their pensions and jobs is not that exciting for news organizations and for prosecutors. Ebbers got very little time.

Unfortunately, dishonesty grows and spawns strife and even wars, and the war protesters miss this point, many times.

I think Worldcom simply and fraudulently changed its regular expenses into Capital Expenses to show it was investing in equipment ostensibly for future infrstructure and growth. Fraud like this and much worse happens all the time in politics and business.

Whistleblowers are seldom rewarded, and the salesmen and women who feed us the fraud rarely get what they deserve. What is going to change? Nada.

I read the book "Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from inside history's biggest accounting fraud - the collapse of MCI Worldcom"

Did Ms. Cooper know Walter Pavlo Jr. who worked at MCI?

Not only did the crooks at Worldcom hurt their employees and shareholders, but they hurt the entire industry as AT&T and others were punished by Wall Street for not meeting Worldcom results. This lead to layoffs that could have been avoided.