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3月15日，涉嫌110亿美元的会计欺诈案的世通前CEO伯纳德·埃伯斯被美国联邦陪审团判定犯有欺诈罪，埃伯斯还犯有合谋罪以及向监管部门提交虚假文件的罪名。据悉，63岁的埃伯斯犯下了美国史上金额最大的欺诈罪，最多将被判入狱85年，计划在6月13日宣判。外电报道如下：Bernard Ebbers, the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom, was convicted Tuesday of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history - an $11 billion accounting scandal that capsized the big telecom company three years ago.
The verdict marked a colossal fall for Ebbers, who had turned a humble Mississippi long-distance provider into a global telecommunications power, swallowing up companies along the way and earning the nickname "Telecom Cowboy."
A federal jury in Manhattan returned guilty verdicts on all nine counts, including securities fraud, conspiracy and lying to regulators - a decision that could send Ebbers, 63, to prison for the rest of his life. Sentencing was set for June 13.
Capsize表示“（船、车等）倾覆”，例如：It was a real miracle that the little boat capsized in the storm, but luckily didn't sink.（小船在暴风雨中倾覆，幸好没沉没，这真是个奇迹。）I capsized the canoe.（我掀翻了那只独木舟。）
据悉，自从美国电信业巨头世通的欺诈活动于2002年曝光以来，已经有六名公司前管理人员被判有罪其他五人都承认有罪，其中包括前首席财务官斯科特·沙利文。陪审团用了六周时间才确定了埃伯斯的罪名，他在为自己辩护时多次否认指控，将罪责都推在了沙利文身上。
（中国日报网站编）
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