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

Former Qwest Communications International executive Thomas Hall pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of falsifying documents, ending the first criminal case stemming from a federal investigation of the
September 24, 2004

Qwest has not responded to reports that the company is negotiating with the SEC to settle separate civil fraud allegations related to swaps of goods and services with other companies. A union official last week said the company has tentatively agreed to pay $250 million to settle the claims.

To date, about a dozen former Qwest executives either have settled allegations or have been targeted in civil or criminal cases.

Two other former Qwest executives reached settlements with the SEC in June: Steven Haggerty, former regional vice president of Qwestlink, a construction business unit of Qwest, and Augustine Cruciotti, a former senior vice president of the unit.

Cruciotti agreed to pay $350,000 to settle charges that he arranged or helped arrange undisclosed agreements to trade fiber-optic capacity with other companies, resulting in improper recognition of $26.6 million in revenue, the SEC said. Haggerty agreed to pay $30,000 to settle charges he helped in such swaps.

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