Cynthia Cooper - Whistleblower — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello my name is Trevor Ram and today I
2. 0:03will be presenting on Cynthia Cooper the
3. 0:06former vice president of internal audit
4. 0:11at Worldcom who blew the whistle on a
5. 0:14large accounting fraud there in the
6. 0:16early 2000s as I go through my
7. 0:19presentation I'll discuss how she blew
8. 0:21the whistle and the ways in which she
9. 0:26followed both the IMAS
10. 0:28ethical conflict resolution statement
11. 0:31and some of the advice given by dr.
12. 0:33Betty Rocco in his article entitled we
13. 0:39don't need another hero the ways in
14. 0:42which miss Cooper followed the ima
15. 0:45ethical conflict resolution statement
16. 0:47are twofold firstly she went ahead and
17. 0:52discussed the large issues that she
18. 0:54found with her direct supervisor who was
19. 0:57the CEO of worldcom at the time Scott
20. 0:59Sullivan now finding that mr. Sullivan
21. 1:03was somewhat not somewhat but actually
22. 1:06totally complicit in committing the
23. 1:09fraud that she was uncovering miss
24. 1:11Cooper then went ahead to the audit
25. 1:14committee and discussed with them the
26. 1:17discrepancies in accounting that she
27. 1:19found mr. Sullivan to be perpetrating
28. 1:22within WorldCom so the other thing that
29. 1:27miss Cooper did was she followed very
30. 1:30well some of dr. Vetter acos advice in
31. 1:33two ways the first way was that she bent
32. 1:36the rules but did not break them during
33. 1:37the course of her investigation miss
34. 1:40Cooper's team often was working late on
35. 1:43hours in order to keep their
36. 1:45investigation concealed from mrs.
37. 1:47Sullivan and others in WorldCom another
38. 1:50thing that they did was somewhat
39. 1:51circumvent the IT controls in order to
40. 1:54access world Commons accounting systems
41. 1:59in order to further their investigation
42. 2:01second way in which miss Cooper followed
43. 2:05dr. veteranos advice was in picking her
44. 2:07battles she chose to engage with mr.
45. 2:09Sullivan only when
46. 2:11the Audit Committee of worldcom could
47. 2:15Thorat eight we rule on the
48. 2:17discrepancies that she was bringing up
49. 2:19in the frauds that she was exposing and
50. 2:21in fact she did this so effectively that
51. 2:23it led to mr. Sullivan's
52. 2:25forced resignation by the audit
53. 2:28committee and so because she followed
54. 2:32the I am a conflict resolution doctrine
55. 2:34as well as the the advice of dr. Vetter
56. 2:38a co I feel that miss gogo is a very
57. 2:41effective and ethical whistleblower from
58. 2:43whom we can all learn a lot thank you