Ebbers Is Ordered to Medium-Security Prison
Prison officials have told former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive Bernard J. Ebbers that he must serve his 25-year sentence at a medium-security prison in Louisiana -- not the low-security facility near his Mississippi home he had requested, according to court papers.
Ebbers, 63, has been ordered to report to prison Oct. 12. He was convicted in March of nine counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and filing false statements stemming from the $11-billion accounting scandal at WorldCom, now known as MCI Inc.
At Ebbers’ sentencing hearing last month, U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in New York recommended that the federal Bureau of Prisons -- which makes prison assignments -- send Ebbers to a minimum-security facility in Yazoo City, Miss.
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