Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers stands outside the Oklahoma County
courthouse Septmeber 3, 2003 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after
arraignment on charges of violating state securities laws by giving
false information to investors in 2000. Ebbers, who headed
telecommunications giant WorldCom when it collapsed into the nation's
largest bankruptcy last year amid an accounting scandal that has grown
to $11 billion, pleaded not guilty to the charges. REUTERS/Jeff
Mitchell

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