an amount later raised to $9 billion in the greatest accounting fraud in history. Sullivan and Myers were arrested; WorldCom shareholders lost $3 billion; 17,000 WorldCom work ers lost their jobs; Arthur Andersen was shut down for shredding evidence of other accounting frauds at other firms. Even today, many WorldCom managers and employees do not speak to her and she some times cries. Says Cooper: "There is a price to be paid [But] it comes back to the values and ethics that you learn.... The fear of losing my job was secondary to the obligation l felt