CONVICTION OF EBBERS Felonies are generally described as offenses that are punishable by more than one years imprisonment. One sometimes sees these felonies referred to as capital crimes or infamous crimes. These terms have little or no legal significance today. All other crimes which carry less severe penalties, are misdemeanors. Violations are punished less severely than crimes. The distinction between felonies and misdemeanors on the one hand, and violations, on the other, is really the difference in the severity of the crime. The crime of felony is placed upon Ebbers as he faces spending the rest of his life behind bars because he had a significant role in the $11 billion accounting scandal that spurred the WorldCom known as MCI, into what is known as the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
He was convicted of nine felony charges even as he had already given up the bulk of his cash and assets to MCI and the shareholders of WorldCom worth more than $45 million. He has requested for a lighter sentence because of his declining health, charitable giving and the steep financial losses which he necessarily suffered upon the collapse of WorldCom. Indeed, the companys actions fits a felony because what they did was a serious crime and it needed it to be brought before a grand jury, indicted, arraigned, given a chance to plead in any one of the several ways and offered a jury trial. Aggravating this was the fact that John and Timothy Rigas were given 15- and 20-year prison terms. This now puts a pressure on the judge to give a term comparable to Ebbers (Crawford, 2005).
The Term Paper on Cultural Masculinity and Crime
Masculinity is a fact that is conceptualized in Goliath in various ways and to a number of argumentative ends. On the other hand, there is a unique culture of masculinity which is identified as a connection between the ‘tough’ and ‘rough’ males and the law enforcers. Other connections include the nature of significance that is attached to homosocial bonding as well as the masculine camaraderie and ...
Even the star witness, former finance chief Scott Sullivan, testified against him when he said that Ebbers repeatedly ordered him to hit our numbers meaning that Sullivan must manipulate the books in order to meet the expectations of Wall Street. This definitely was a serious crime that constitutes a felony. WORKS CITED Crawford, Krysten.
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