We The People: December 23, 2002

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Twenty-three years ago, on December 23, 2002, we learned that TIME Magazine had named a Brandon woman as one of its “persons of the year.”

Cynthia Cooper was among three people selected that year for her role in exposing the fraud that toppled Clinton-based WorldCom and its CEO, Bernie Ebbers.

She was an auditor at the company and has since written a book about her experiences there…

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