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The Regents - University of California | Office of The President

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Scott [Sullivan] relayed a conversation you had with<br />

him at dinner when you volunteered to do whatever<br />

necessary to get Telco/Margins back in line. This was<br />

a dinner with Scott, Ron and Bernie prior to the<br />

announcement <strong>of</strong> last quarter.<br />

As you can see, margins have declined significantly and<br />

your immediate attention is appreciated. We need to<br />

address this during the quarter and not at the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />

quarter. Just so you know, I fully realize the impact that<br />

declining pricing to our customers has had on margins<br />

but I hope you feel like me that it is impossible to accept<br />

declining margins given the significant capex (over $16<br />

billion over the past 2 years), access reform and the<br />

fastest growing part <strong>of</strong> our business being Telecom<br />

(more capex with lower variable line cost). (Emphasis<br />

added).<br />

Bosley responded the next day in an e-mail:<br />

Actually I asked Scott what numbers he wanted and I<br />

would see what could be done to get them. But . . .<br />

obviously gross margins is very important and we will<br />

put several projects in place to get this moving back<br />

where it was. <strong>The</strong> first quarter is pretty well cast at this<br />

point but we will define what we can do to reverse the<br />

trend. (Emphasis added).<br />

130. During the internal investigation, the participants once again showed<br />

they had knowledge that there was no support for the entries (or unconvincingly<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essed ignorance <strong>of</strong> the accounting methods). In internal audit correspondence<br />

dated June 17, 2002, accountant Betty Vinson, who posted the prepaid account<br />

entries, had no support for the entries and stated that she obtained the entry<br />

amounts from Buddy Yates and David Myers. Yates claimed to have no<br />

knowledge <strong>of</strong> the entries. Myers admitted that there was no support for the<br />

prepaid capacity and that they were “booked based upon what they thought the<br />

margins should be.”<br />

Next we went to David Myers’ <strong>of</strong>fice and requested<br />

support for the entries. David stated that he did not<br />

have support for the entries and the amounts were<br />

booked based upon what they thought the margins<br />

should be. David said that there were no accounting<br />

pronouncements to support these entries.<br />

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COMPLAINT

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