Comments on: Qwest Nacchio found guilty http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM Broadbandits: Enron Prison Stripes ScoreCard « http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142330 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:05:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142330 [...] Joe Nacchio, CEO, Qwest: faces 10 years in prison and fines. [...]

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142329 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:34:56 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142329 Om, I’m talking about the score from this at bat, not the whole inning. As to Nortel, stupidity is rarely a valid legal defense. [Insert Alberto Gonzales Joke Here] Of course, Nortel criminality is primarily an issue for the Canadian courts. For all their general smugness, they seem no more enlightened than us when it comes to major league white collar crime.

]]> By: Paul Traina http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142328 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:03:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142328 Maybe so, but Naccio/Qwest were the one telco that demanded that the US Government get a court order for tapping lines and following call patterns. I wonder if any of this was payback. Insider trading can be gratuitous, or it can be accidental in many many many cases (I don’t know the details of this case).

]]> By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142327 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:53:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142327 Living under the umbrella of Qwest technology – the follow-on to US Worst – I shout “Bravo!”

The state of New Mexico just won a case for a rebate to customers for the most recent years of theft by these klowns.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142326 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:21:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142326 Jesse,

that would be score two – given that bernie is behind the bars already.

On Nortel,

I wonder if it was the crime of same magnitude or crime of stupidity

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142325 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:16:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/qwest-nacchio-found-guilty/#comment-142325 Score one for the good guys. Now, when is somebody from Nortel going to jail? Their shenanigans cost investors (a lot of them Nortel’s own employees) tens of billions.

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