MCI Names New Board Members

The company, brought down by an $11 billion accounting scandal, is now doing business as MCI, the brand name of its long-distance division. The company's entire board left in the wake of the scandal.

The new appointments will take effect when MCI emerges from bankruptcy, which it expects to do this fall. They bring to nine the total number of board members, with as many as three more expected to be appointed soon, the company said.

The new members are David Matlin, chief executive of Matlin Patterson Global Advisers LLC, a major investor in MCI; W. Grant Gregory, chairman of Gregory and Hoenemeyer, Merchant Bankers; retired Bell Atlantic Corp. executive Judith Haberkorn; Laurence Harris, an attorney in the Patton Boggs law firm and former executive of the Teligent telecommunications company; and Eric Holder, a partner in the Covington and Burling law firm and former deputy U.S. attorney general.

One of the new board's first duties will be to elect a chairman who is not an executive of MCI to comply with new rules governing the company. That means Michael Capaellas, the chairman and CEO, will have to relinquish the chairman's role.

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