March 16, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet service and Web hosting provider Worldcom’s (mci.com) former CEO Bernard Ebbers has been convicted on all charges involved with the biggest fraud in US corporate history, reports say.
Ebbers was convicted Tuesday of one count of securities fraud, one of conspiracy and seven counts of making false filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Ebbers’s sentencing is scheduled for June 13. He faces up to 85 years in prison.
Ebbers started Worldcom in 1983 and built the business into one of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers. He resigned in April of 2002 just a few months before the company revealed it had inflated profits through various improper accounting procedures.
