WorldCom
Sep 25 2006, Jayanta Bhattacharya

Bernerd J. Ebbers will surrender tomorrow to the authorities to start his long prison sentence for his role in an $11 billion WorldCom accounting fraud. Ebbers, 65, with a heart ailment is almost assured that he will never ever be able to come out...

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