Read more Joseph Nacchio stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1320/joseph-nacchio.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorMon, 21 May 2012 11:00:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21818/ex-qwest-ceos-conviction-overturned.htmlNick McMaster<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=84790&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401020252' border='0' />A federal appeals court overturned Joe Nacchio’s guilty verdict today and ordered a new trial for the ex-Qwest CEO before a different judge, the Denver Post reports. The court ruled that the district judge who presided over Nacchio's trial on insider trading charges erred in excluding testimony from an expert...Former Qwest Communication executive Joe Nacchio and his wife, Anne, leave the federal courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. http://www.newser.com/story/21818/ex-qwest-ceos-conviction-overturned.htmlMon, 17 Mar 2008 15:35:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/9419/ex-qwest-ceo-claims-spy-effort-began-before-911.htmlKatherine Thompson<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=35693&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401031112' border='0' />Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications, claims that the National Security Agency asked his company in February, 2001, to participate in a potentially illegal surveillance program—and when he declined, punished the company by dropping a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars, reports the Washington Post . The...Joe Nacchio the former head of Qwest Communications, arrives at the federal courthouse with his wife Anne in Denver, Colo., on Friday, July 27, 2007. Nacchio faces a maximum of seven years, three months in prison, a $19 million fine and forfeiture of as much as $52 million in assets for his April conviction on 19 counts of insider trading. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)http://www.newser.com/story/9419/ex-qwest-ceo-claims-spy-effort-began-before-911.htmlSat, 13 Oct 2007 09:34:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/9184/ex-qwest-ceo-didnt-foresee-trouble-ahead.htmlJonas Oransky<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=34561&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401031238' border='0' />Former Qwest chief Joseph Nacchio yesterday appealed an insider-trading conviction, claiming he couldn’t have known the telecommunications company was in dire straits when he sold $52 million in stock in 2001. Rebutting a federal court’s guilty finding on 19 counts, the brief asserts Nacchio “believed more than anyone else in...Joe Nacchio the former head of Qwest Communcations is shown in this courtroom drawing, holding a handkerchief used to wipe away tears, as he is sentenced to six years in prison by U.S. District Judge Edward Notingham on his insider trading conviction at the federal courthouse in Denver, Colo., Friday, July 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Pat Lopez)http://www.newser.com/story/9184/ex-qwest-ceo-didnt-foresee-trouble-ahead.htmlWed, 10 Oct 2007 11:54:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/5755/top-telecom-exec-takes-over-as-qwest-ceo.htmlPeter Fearon<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=19123&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401033223' border='0' />A top telecom veteran has been named CEO of struggling Qwest. Edward Mueller, 60-year-old former chief executive of Ameritech and Williams-Sonoma, takes the reins from Dick Notebaert, who ran the company for five years, the Wall Street Journal reports. The country's fourth-largest telephone company, Qwest faces increased pressure from competitors...Newly appointed Qwest Communications International Inc. Chairman and CEO Edward A. Mueller (Photohttp://www.newser.com/story/5755/top-telecom-exec-takes-over-as-qwest-ceo.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2007 07:24:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/4883/ex-qwest-ceo-gets-6-years.htmlSam Biddle<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=14742&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401033730' border='0' />Qwest's former CEO was sentenced to 6 years in prison today for engaging in insider trading while the company's stock plummeted. Joseph Nacchio committed "crimes of overarching greed,'' a federal judge in Denver said as he fined him $19 million in addition to the $52 million he must forfeit,...Former chief executive of Qwest Communications, Joe Nacchio, is shown as he wipes away a tear in this courtroom drawing by artist Pat Lopez, as he listens to his attorney Herbert Stern's closing arguments at his trial at the federal courthouse in Denver, Wednesday, April 11 , 2007. (AP Photo/Pat Lopez)http://www.newser.com/story/4883/ex-qwest-ceo-gets-6-years.htmlFri, 27 Jul 2007 17:43:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/1561/nacchio-goes-down-for-insider-trading.htmlPeter Fearon<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2830&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401035415' border='0' />Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Internet-bubble-blowing telecom Qwest, was found guilty of 19 counts of insider trading by a federal jury in Denver yesterday. Nacchio dumped more than $100 million in Qwest stock in 2001, before the stock imploded over questionable accounting practices. The jury acquitted on 23 other counts.Nacchio with his family and lawyerhttp://www.newser.com/story/1561/nacchio-goes-down-for-insider-trading.htmlFri, 20 Apr 2007 06:50:52 CDT