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(6,259 posts)Nacchio's claims that the only possible reason that the government went after him and the other executives cooking the books was NSA?
Nope. He and the other people in charge were pulling the same stunts as Enron and Global Crossing were and were basically lying to people to make themselves buckets of money. They almost managed to destroy a really great company (US West) but luckily the replacement CEO was not a crook and staved it off.
Those of us working for Qwest could see how things were spiraling down from the inside and it had nothing, not one thing, to do with 9/11 or NSA. He was manipulating stock and he was not some "hero." He was a man who destroyed my former boss's chance to retire well after spending 30+ years of her life making that company great. He was the man who caused us to have to stop ordering supplies because it cost too much for the company to buy some freaking pens thanks to his mismanagement.
Most of us former employees thought he got off light after what he did. So a pox on him and he can just go bleep off.