Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.(bookshelf)(Book review)

Financial Executive, April, 2008 by Marshall, Jeffrey

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. By Cynthia Cooper. John Wiley & Sons, 402 pages. $27.95.

By now, the outlines of Cynthia Cooper's story are well-known. In 2002, as head of the internal audit team at telecom giant WorldCom Inc., she blew the whistle on what became the largest corporate fraud in U.S. corporate history, eventually reaching $11 billion. As a direct result, the company's founder and CEO, Bernie Ebbers, is serving an extended prison sentence, and Scott Sullivan--the CFO who masterminded the fraud and forced underlings to restate entries to allow WorldCom to meet its earnings targets--was sentenced to a lengthy prison term.

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Cooper tells her story in tremendous, sometimes...

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