January 25, 2005

The Ebbers Trial\'s Stars and Extras

The fraud and conspiracy trial of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers is still pending. While the criminal investigation has yielded literally millions of pages of financial documents, there\'s not much evidence linking the executive to the crimes that he\'s accused of, according to Peter Henning, a former prosecutor who teaches law at Wayne State. Henning says: \"The outcome of this case will depend upon which witnesses the jurors believe. The government wants to hold Ebbers criminally responsible for WorldCom\'s $11 billion accounting scandal.

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