100 Days: the rush to judgment that killed Nortel - Paperback

by James E. Bagnall (Author)

100 Days is the shocking tale about how corporate governance felled Nortel Networks, the legendary Canadian technology firm. What began in 2003 as a routine re-examination of the company's balance sheet quickly transformed into a witch hunt as outside investigators concluded Nortel's accounting was suspect - and the company's directors accepted this as fact. It took nearly a decade before Ontario Superior Court Justice Frank Marrocco determined that no crime had been committed. The Ottawa Citizen's associate business editor James Bagnall tells the surprising tale of the independent probe that started it all, the Texas assistant district attorney who didn't buy its conclusions, and the RCMP officers and Ontario Crown attorneys who did. 100 Days is a chilling exposition of how three former Nortel executives were for years denied a presumption of innocence, before they finally had their day in court.

Author Biography

James Bagnall, the Associate Business Editor at The Ottawa Citizen, has been reporting on business since 1978. He began his career at The Financial Post and The Financial Times of Canada before joining the Citizen in 1993. Bagnall has won multiple business writing awards and has also been nominated four times for National Newspaper Awards -- and won in 2013 for his coverage of Nortel Networks. He spent months during 2012 in the courtroom of Judge Frank Marrocco, providing coverage of one of the most complicated trials in Canadian business history. Bagnall's reporting is informed by his considerable international experience which he gained through organizing and writing special reports on South Africa, India, Israel, Germany and Britain. Bagnall has also written extensively on the federal government and its many agencies. He graduated in 1975 from University of Toronto's Trinity College.