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Ex-WorldCom Accountant Gets Prison Time
Pressed to say how she chose which entries to change, Betty Vinson reportedly testified, "I just really pulled some out of the air. I used some spreadsheets."
Betty Vinson, a former accounting manager at WorldCom Inc., was sentenced Friday morning to five months in prison and five months of house arrest for her role in the $11 billion accounting fraud at the erstwhile telecommunications giant.
Later in the day, Troy Normand, another former accounting manager, was sentenced to three years of probation, according to...