Via BusinessWeek.com:

Ex-Qwest exec settlement said collapsed

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/DENVER
By SANDY SHORE
AP Business Writer
January 19, 2006

A tentative settlement has collapsed for a former Qwest chief financial officer in a civil case arising from the telecommunications company's multibillion dollar accounting scandal, her attorney said Thursday.

Robin Szeliga's attorney provided no details during a court hearing about the Securities and Exchange Commission's case against Szeliga and other former Qwest executives. Szeliga announced in June she had agreed to settle the civil case.

"That settlement ultimately did not occur," attorney Mark Drooks told Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer. SEC attorney Robert Fusfeld declined comment outside the courtroom...

Check out the full article for more on the probably fate of Nacchio and the five other Quest execs fingered in the fraud.

-- MDT

Labels: Joe Nacchio, Quest, Robin Szeliga