Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison

[RU482]

publicity stunt. he'll quietly get out of it on appeal

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: Rastus
Even during the telecom boom, Worldcom was constantly laying people off and piling work on the people that were left. When I hired on, there were 8 people in my POP. A year an a half later, I was there alone. I was ALWAYS on call. They kept pushing stock options, so raises were few and far between. Perks were always being taken away. Their wall street shills were always calling us to get us to margin our 401k's, which ended in most people losing their life savings. Then it ended in layoffs. The people that are left are still sufferig.

MCI spent their money building hosting facilities that are still unused and the infrastructure is aging and is very hard to maintain, so a big outage is imminent on their network.

Now with the bidding war between Qwest (who is in just as much trouble) and Verizon has driven up the price of the company beyond what it is worth, so the investors are about to take another bath.

Cliff Notes: MCI sucks

wow, sounds like self imposed torture

 

[Schadenfroh]

He will probably go to the kind of jail my uncle went to after my family's little "incident" that he took the fall for. It will be like a country club if that is the case, very clean, cable TV, no bubbah's, etc.

 

[Mo0o]

He'll most likely end up in a resort prison along with the rest of the executive white collar criminals.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: SouthPaW1227
I hope he gets out...he was just living the American dream this country encourages.

If you think this guy should be in jail, most of you should look for new Senators, congresspeople, and representatives as well.

Corruption, as sad as it is, is the American way. We just hide it well.

We ARE looking for new politicians you @#$%^&*! (And Senators/Representatives ARE congessmen.)

Nobody honest wants to run for office. And we dont hide corruption well, we air our dirty laundry everday. We just dont have the guts/time to keep putting old white people in prison. I think a few well placed lay-offs would be very nice. But it wont happen. Politicans are much better at keeping their jobs than doing them.

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: SouthPaW1227
I hope he gets out...he was just living the American dream this country encourages.

If you think this guy should be in jail, most of you should look for new Senators, congresspeople, and representatives as well.

I'm all for that. Hell I'll even drive the bus.

 

[jadinolf]

Thanks to Ebbers I lost a considerable amount of money (MCI). 25 years in prison doesn't give me my money back.