Cynthia Cooper’s book – Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower

Posted by Tracy Coenen on January 28, 2008 · 3 Comments 

cooper.jpgCynthia Cooper, WorldCom whistleblower, is releasing her book in just few days. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower is her story. If it is anything like the speech I heard her give a few years ago at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Fraud Conference, it will be fantastic.

Unlike other so-called whistleblowers of the Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco era… Cynthia is the true hero. She stood up for what she knew was right and she suffered for it. Make no mistake that she was in danger as she and her team attempted to get to the bottom of accounting shenanigans at WorldCom.

Publishers Weekly writes:

In Cooper’s thorough and efficient narrative about the fantastic collapse of telecommunications giant WorldCom there are two distinct themes: her insider’s view of the corporation’s widespread wrongdoing and the life experiences that led Cooper to becoming a courageous whistleblower. Cooper, former vice president of WorldCom’s internal audit department, is most successful with the former. She brings us into the boardrooms, the backrooms and, somehow, into the heads of key players as some struggled with and others embraced the deceptions that would bring WorldCom down.

I’ll be reviewing the book in the next couple of weeks and can’t wait to share my thoughts.


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Comments

3 Responses to “Cynthia Cooper’s book – Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower”
  1. Susan O'Bryan says:
    3 February 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Cynthia’s book is a fascinating read – an inspirational insight into the courage it takes to do what’s wrong, no matter hard it might be.

  2. Harry Thompson says:
    29 March 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Can you suggest any books on U. S. congressional fraud?

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