WorldCom: The Eleven Billion Dollar Lie

It was the largest accounting fraud in American history. And it was uncovered not by the SEC, not by Wall Street analysts, not by the auditors — but by a vice president of internal audit working alone at night after hours because she couldn't look the other way.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside WorldCom — how CEO Bernie Ebbers and CFO Scott Sullivan hid eleven billion dollars in fraudulent expenses, how seventeen thousand employees lost their jobs and their retirement savings, and how Cynthia Cooper's decision to keep digging changed American corporate law forever.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes every Monday and Wednesday.