Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers sentenced. — Transcript

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1. 0:19who' he push [ __ ] push
2. 0:28me
3. 0:31give is the truth the whole truth and
4. 0:32nothing but the
5. 0:34truth you're sworn
6. 0:37in each of you is now under oath and you
7. 0:40may
8. 0:58now
9. 1:12I think an innocent man got sentenced
10. 1:13today I think that uh the judge is a
11. 1:17wonderful judge and I'm sure tried to do
12. 1:19what she thought was best but the
13. 1:20problem with this case from day one
14. 1:22Bernie Evers was transformed into a
15. 1:24symbol a distorted picture of corporate
16. 1:27corruption that's not fornie Evers the
17. 1:29record is is uncontradicted this is a
18. 1:32man who has lived a life that is
19. 1:33unblemished he's lived a life of
20. 1:36unbelievable charity and kindness and
21. 1:38compassion and somehow that didn't fit
22. 1:41in to this picture of the greedy corrupt
23. 1:45public of or corporate official it it it
24. 1:47made us crazy what are theable issues I
25. 1:50just
26. 1:53believe thank you I thought it was I
27. 1:56thought it was in effect a life sentence
28. 1:58for him I thought it was a good sentence
29. 2:01uh because it sends a message that
30. 2:02hopefully this type of corporate
31. 2:04behavior and misconduct is not going to
32. 2:06be uh tolerated Corporate America do you
33. 2:08feel any
34. 2:10ofure personally I think he's a
35. 2:13genuinely person I think that um