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The Great WorldCom Scandal
About the Infamous
WorldCom Scandal
A series of fraudulent statements and devious cover-ups led to the largest accounting scandal in American history.
WorldCom, once the nation's second-largest long-distance phone company, let down investors when it filed for bankruptcy in 2002. The executives in charge at WorldCom created over $12 billion in accounting misstatements.
These misstatements created one of the worst corporate crimes in history. Continue navigating through the site to find out more about how Bernard Ebbers and Scott Sullivan committed these crimes, and at what cost.
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