U.S. v. EBBERS

Docket No. 05-4059-CR.

458 F.3d 110 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Bernard J. EBBERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reid H. Weingarten (Erik L. Kitchen, Brian M. Heberlig, on the brief), Steptoe & Johnson L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant.

William Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief, David B. Anders, Iris Lan, and Robin L. Baker, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.

Before WINTER, CABRANES, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge.

Bernard J. Ebbers appeals from his conviction by a jury on nine counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and related crimes and from the 25-year jail sentence imposed by Judge Jones.

Ebbers was the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of WorldCom, Inc., a publicly traded global telecommunications company. During the pertinent times—from the close of the fourth quarter of the 2000 fiscal year through the first quarter of the 2002 fiscal...

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