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• '09 trial date likely in Qwest fraud case

  - 2007-07-21

  DENVER -- A civil fraud lawsuit against five former Qwest Communications executives, including one-time chief executive Joe Nacchio, likely won't go to trial until 2009, based on a witness interview schedule released Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer set a series of deadlines for completing witness depositions...

  Tags: attorney, deposition, FINANCE, Investment, Litigation, Qwest Communications Inc., SALES, SEC

• BNET Daily Dispatch: Qwest, McDonald's, Circuit City, and CrackBerry

  - 2007-04-20

  A federal jury convicted Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications, yesterday on charges of insider trading for selling $52 million of the company's shares in 2001. Nacchio sold the shares based on private warnings that the company would miss its sales targets. He faces ten years in prison.McDonald's said...

  Tags: Qwest Communications Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Sales Strategy, McDonald's Corp., RIM BlackBerry, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Sales, Hardware, Joseph De Avila

• Selling Finance: How Sales Teams Are Learning the Finer Points of Revenue Recognition

  BNET - 2006-05-08

  Educating salespeople on acceptable structures is fast becoming a necessity as regulators crack down on questionable sales practices and irregularities in booking revenue. CA, for example, has been embroiled in an accounting scandal that involved improper booking of $2.2 billion in revenue. Six executives, including the former head of worldwide...

  Tags: Revenue, CFO Publishing Corp., Qwest Communications Inc., Sales Team, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Financial Services

• Ticket sales slow for Falcons' season opener at Qwest Field

  - 2005-08-11

  Though early ticket sales for Air Force's Sept. 3 season opener have been slow, senior associate athletic director Mike Saks said there's no danger that Air Force will receive less than the $2.3 million it was guaranteed by promoter Bob Walsh for moving its home game against Washington to Seattle....

  Tags: Air Force, Games, Qwest Communications Inc., SALES

• Prosecutors seek to delay suit against ex-Qwest executive

  - 2005-07-28

  The U.S. Justice Department sought to delay a civil accounting fraud suit against ex-Qwest Communications International Inc. Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio, removing a possible impediment to a criminal case. Acting Denver U.S. Attorney William Leone asked for a stay of at least 150 days in the discovery phase...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, NETWORKING, prosecutor, Qwest Communications Inc., SALES, SEC, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Ex-Qwest CFO pleads guilty to insider trading

  - 2005-07-14

  DENVER -- A former Qwest Communications International Inc. chief financial officer pleaded guilty Thursday to a single count of insider trading, becoming the highest-ranking officer to admit to wrongdoing in a scandal that forced the telephone company to erase billions of dollars in revenue. Robin Szeliga, 44, faces...

  Tags: CFO, FINANCE, Government, Litigation, Qwest Communications Inc., revenue, SALES, SEC

• Ex-Qwest CEO asks judge to dismiss fraud charges

  - 2005-06-02

  DENVER -- Former Qwest Communications CEO Joe Nacchio asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss fraud charges against him, arguing that the allegations amount to "enforcement by hindsight." In a brief filed in U.S. District Court, Nacchio's attorneys said the Securities and Exchange Commission case alleged the one-time...

  Tags: FINANCE, fraud, Litigation, Qwest Communications Inc., revenue, SALES, SEC

• Nightly Business Report

  - 2005-02-03

  JEFF YASTINE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: More wedding bells could be in the works for the telecom industry, with Qwest eyeing MCI. A look at the combination and what the $6 billion deal would do to the telecom landscape. LINDA O`BRYON, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: Then, President...

  Tags: Bush, car, FINANCE, franchise, game, Government, Investment, MCI Inc., movie, NETWORKING, NFL, president, Qwest Communications Inc., SALES, stock, team, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• Colorado regulator's nonprofit launches with money from Qwest, other Bells.

  - 2004-10-24

  By Tom McGhee, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 24--A top Colorado regulator charged with setting telecommunications policy recently helped launch a nonprofit group with money from a foundation backed by Qwest and the other Bell companies. The...

  Tags: Colorado, commission, federation, Government, NETWORKING, Progress & Freedom Foundation, Qwest Communications Inc., Regulations, regulator, SALES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• Qwest and DIRECTV to Deliver Fully-Integrated Satellite TV Services to Customers; Qwest Will Provide Sales, Service and Billing/Account Management in Early 2005

  - 2004-10-07

  DENVER & EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) and DIRECTV, Inc. today announced that the companies have formed a strategic marketing alliance that will allow Qwest to offer DIRECTV digital satellite television services to residential customers across the western United States.

  Tags: DirecTV, Qwest Communications Inc., sales