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Cynthia Cooper (WorldCom)
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Cynthia Cooper (born 1963) is an internal auditor and consultant who is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed massive accounting fraud at WorldCom in 2002.
A native of Clinton, Mississippi, Cooper worked as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. After conducting a thorough investigation in secret, she informed the audit committee of WorldCom's board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through phony bookkeeping. At the time, this was the largest incident of accounting fraud in U.S. history.
Cooper previously worked for the Atlanta offices of public accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. She received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Mississippi State University and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Georgia, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Cooper was named one of three "People of the Year" by Time magazine in 2002.
- MCI WorldCom
- Bernard Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO
- Scott Sullivan, former WorldCom CFO
- Public Concern at Work[1]
- page 23 http://www.worldcomlitigation.com/courtdox/2005-09-21CoteOpApprovSetts.pdf
- For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2001, WorldCom Cash flows from investing activities, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723527/000100547701502009/d01-35105.txt
- WorldCom Internal Audit, Capital Expenditures Review, Final, January 2002
- Colvin, G. "Wonder Women of Whistleblowing". Fortune (August 12, 2002).
| Preceded by Rudolph Giuliani |
Time's Person of the Year (The Whistleblowers, alongside Sherron Watkins of Enron and Coleen Rowley of the FBI) 2002 |
Succeeded by The American Soldier |
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