Nick Denton: WorldCom arrests

WorldCom arrests

And so, it starts. The first arrests in America's frenzy over corporate corruption. (I'm not counting the Adelphia guys, who simply raided the company bank account to finance personal expenses.) Scott Sullivan, WorldCom's chief financial officer, was taken into custody. I don't see how Bernie Ebbers can avoid indictment now.Two former WorldCom execs arrested [Reuters]

#

recent posts...

front page

and previously...

· Fleshbot
· Tina Brown on blogs
· Binn engagement party
· Blogs and talent
· Can a blog be worth $2m?
· Gizmodo and Gawker
· Meg the meme-maker
· Fred Wilson's blog
· Dysfunctional California
· Blog empires
· How to hire a software engineer
· Saudi wisdom
· wrod as a wlohe
· Textad burnout
· Google Adsense
· The return of hype
· The Baghdad Blog -- the book
· Launchpad
· Walk-by piracy
· Senior jobs at the New York Times
· Arctic oil drilling
· End subsidies for agriculture
· Schwarzenegger, naked
· How to beat Bush
· James Truman
· News management
· Bush in Africa
· My Name is Salam Pax
· Tail-swallowing
· A solution for spam
· Rio de Janeiro
· Katrina vanden Heuvel
· BusinessWeek on open-source media
· Drudge's extreme weather
· Drudge interview
· Retro Gizmodo
· Organizational terrorism
· Death by blog
· BREAKING: Raines resigns
· Intern for the Lafayette Project
· This is bullshit
· Dinner with Salam Pax
· In praise of naivete
· Cherubic Salam
· Steve Ballmer's blog
· Salam Pax worked for me
· Salam
· Gray Lady
· An ordinary business model
· Last word