Joseph Nacchio

Former Qwest CEO, convicted in 2007 of securities fraud

On March 15, 2005, former Qwest Communications International Inc. Chairman & CEO, Joseph P. Nacchio, along with six other former executives, were charged by the SEC with securities fraud. The reported $3 billion fraud involved inflated stock prices which occurred between 1999 and 2002, according to the complaint. On December 20, 2005, Nacchio was indicted in Federal Court in Colorado on 42 counts of insider trading. Nacchio was convicted On April 19, 2007 on 19 of the counts. Nacchio was subsequently sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $19 million in fines and forfeit $52 million from the illegal stock trades. He is currently appealing the sentence.

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Business Positions

Qwest Communications International Inc. Voice, video and data services; predecessor of CenturyLink

• Former CEO (past)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Elizabeth Hanford Dole Former US Senator from North Carolina

• 3 contributions · 2,000 USD ('99→'01)

Ernest Frederick Hollings US Senator from South Carolina

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('94)

John McCain US Senator and Representative from Arizona

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('98)

Scott McInnis US Representative from Colorado

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('00)

Wayne Allard Livingston Group Lobbyist & Former US Representative and Senator from Colorado

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('01)

Dick Zimmer Representative from New Jersey

• 1 contribution · 500 USD ('96)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 1 contribution · 500 USD ('00)

Bill Clinton 42nd US president

• 1 contribution · 500 USD ('95)