


Ebbers is now serving a 25-year sentence in a minimum-security Louisiana prison. Bernie Webber, who helped rescue 32 people off the coast of Chatham in 1952, died this weekend at his Florida home. (), Find a Grave Memorial ID 87485672, citing Pleasant Hill Cemetery. memorial page for CPO Bernard Challen Chief / Bernie Webber Sr. At age 16, he joined the Merchant Marine. Ebbers' "I had no idea what was going on" defense didn't work he was convicted of securities fraud, conspiracy and seven counts of filing false reports with regulators. Webber was born in Milton, MA in 1928, the son of Rev. WorldCom eventually filed for bankruptcy, and its stock price tumbled from $64 per share to a little over $1. The Securities Exchange Commission, meanwhile, focused on $400 million that WorldCom personally loaned Ebbers. In 2002, the Mississippi-based company admitted to improperly reporting $3.8 billion in expenses, prompting Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into its business practices.
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It doesn't' work.īernie Ebbers turned WorldCom into the nation's second largest long distance telecommunications company through a series of rapid acquisitions that left it heavily in the red. Bernie Webber, Andrew Fitzgerald, Ervin Maske and Richard Livesey) set out on the 36500 to rescue crewmen on the tanker Pendleton that had broken apart in a storm. 17) at age 83 of complications from a brain tumor, put. On the night of February 18, 1952, during a raging 70-knot nor’easter snowstorm, four Coast Guardsmen (coxswain Bernard C. The tall, white-haired illustrator and muralist, who died Sunday (Dec. Note to aspiring CEOs: If your company is staggering under massive debt, don't orchestrate an $11 billion accounting fraud to try to cover it up. Tour Snohomish County and you’re bound to see Bernie Webber’s art. Convicted: on nine counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and making false regulatory filings
