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Ex-Qwest Executive Hall Pleads Guilty: Page 2 of 4

Hall declined comment to reporters outside the courtroom.

He was accused of participating in a scheme to improperly inflate Qwest revenue by $34 million when he was a senior vice president in the company's global business unit.

A jury deadlocked on a broader set of fraud charges against him in April after a seven-week trial.

In 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department began investigating allegations that Qwest inflated revenue through fraudulent transactions with the Arizona public school system and with other telecommunications companies.

Hall and three other former executives were charged with criminal fraud and conspiracy. Two of the executives, John Walker and Bryan Treadway, were acquitted. Grant Graham pleaded guilty in May to being an accessory after the fact to wire fraud with reckless indifference. He has not been sentenced.