Reply #28: THEY KEPT 2 SETS OF BOOKS (Ebbers/Worldcom)

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http://www.nypost.com/business/38942.htm

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David Myers, the WorldCom controller until asked to resign in 2002, said Ebbers apologized to him in 2000 after Myers was first ordered to fraudulently lower the company's expenses.

"I'm sorry you were asked to do what you were asked to do," Myers said from the stand, paraphrasing Ebbers' comments. "It's something that you should not have been put in that position to do."

Ebbers, who made the comment to Myers in a hallway of WorldCom's Clinton, Miss., headquarters, then promised the controller "that we would never have to do that again."

The testimony, on the third day of the blockbuster trial, was the first time Ebbers was linked directly to the fraud.

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