Ex-WorldCom Chief and convicted felon Ebbers Asks President for Clemency

And I am waiting for ex-Tyco chief and convicted felon to throw his name in the ring for clemency or pardon.

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom Inc. chairman imprisoned for accounting fraud, joined the growing ranks of disgraced executives and government officials asking President George W. Bush for clemency before he leaves office.


Ebbers, 67, submitted a request to have his 25-year sentence commuted and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney is reviewing it, spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said.


A former milkman, Ebbers built a small Mississippi phone company into the second-largest U.S. long-distance provider. He lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid in March 2007 to overturn his 2005 conviction for leading an $11 billion fraud, one of the largest in U.S. history.
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