Lessons from the Collapse of WorldCom

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
WorldCom went from a business success story to a major disaster when it filed for Chapter 11 in 2002 after accruing tens of billions of dollars in debt. Former vice president of WorldCom's internal audit department Cynthia Cooper gives an insider’s view of what brought down WorldCom, and how it relates to the current economic troubles in the US. Her new book is Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.

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