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in I got Spam?!, on March 6, 2010
...obe widens Sox First The smell over the Apple share backdating mess gets worse and worse.Now the Securities and Exchange Commission has widened its inve...
in Sox First, on May 16, 2008
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Two years ago, there was plenty of talk about how the backdating scandals would turn into a lawyers' picnic. Lawyers, who are always quick to find new ways of making a buck, were filing lawsui...
in Sox First, on April 11, 2008
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Much has been said about Sarbanes-Oxley stopping backdating. But is that true? Has it actually improved corporate governance? Under Sarbanes-Oxley, all high-level executive stock option grants an...
in Sox First, on February 29, 2008
...avid Yermack , reported in Porttfolio.com . Yermack's research was absolutely critical in the backdating revelations . According to Yermack, chief executives and chairmen of public companies, i...
in Sox First, on September 11, 2007
...tional security adviser." And then of course, there's Steve Jobs handling of Apple's backdating shenanigans . Yeah, a bit of buck-passing goes a long way in business and politics.
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in Sox First, on August 21, 2007
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Now that the Justice Department got its first backdating scalp in Brocade Communications System's former CEO Gregory Reyes, the Securities and Exchange Commission has now targeted company&...
in Sox First, on August 14, 2007
...ast week's conviction of former Brocade chief executive officer Gregory Reyes of stock option backdating continues to send shivers through Silicon Valley . More indictments are likely to follo...
in Sox First, on July 12, 2007
... banker", because it seems like the investor has been forgotten"); executive pay; options backdating, including its variations of springloading and bullet dodging; hedge fund activism; priva...
in Sox First, on May 23, 2007
...s former general counsel, William Sorin, has been sentenced to jail for his part in stock options backdating. The company's former CFO David Kreinberg is looking at doing time and the US is tryi...
in Sox First, on May 7, 2007
...n the past, I have written about Apple's environmental issues and the way it has handled the backdating of options . Now Apple has announced it's boosting its green credentials by reduci...
in Sox First, on April 24, 2007
...For the Apple-bashers hoping regulators would throw the book at Apple chief Steve Jobs over options backdating, better take a cold shower!!! Months into the federal probe of options backdating at App...
in Sox First, on March 28, 2007
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The number of companies now implicated in the growing backdating scandal has hit 257, according to a report from Glass Lewis . That's more than double the number we've been reading abou...
in Sox First, on March 23, 2007
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Here's the conundrum about backdating. Everyone knows it's cheating shareholders. That's why it's been compared to betting on yesterday's horse races. But unlike other types o...
in Sox First, on March 18, 2007
... by all those backdated options. First at one end, a Disney probe has confirmed there was some backdating but it appears to clear Jobs of any wrong doing, reports the Mercury News . I had looke...
in Sox First, on March 9, 2007
... a difficult period. What's significant here is that this is the first time they have admitted backdating. And as the piece suggests, this could turn nasty and become a lawyers' picnic. The ...
in Sox First, on February 20, 2007
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Bad news for the 170 companies now being investigated for backdating stock option - the tax man is coming to get you . The IRS is giving companies the opportunity to pay the 20 per cent tax plus...
in Sox First, on February 20, 2007
...al year in which they were granted. The time gap made it easier for them to rip off shareholders by backdating options. Sarbanes-Oxley tightened the rules and made it harder to backdate with the requi...
in Sox First, on February 13, 2007
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The smell over the Apple share backdating mess gets worse and worse. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission has widened its investigation into the matter after it emerged that Apple chief exe...
in Sox First, on February 9, 2007
...rds the end of last year, I talked about the president's kid brother, Marvin, and stock option backdating . His little bro was a director of HCC Insurance Holdings at the time when it was backdat...
in Sox First, on February 6, 2007
...usiness are now prominent against a background of obscenely inflated CEO pay packages, stock option backdating and other scandals . But how do you get a handle on moral behavior in business? Is it ...
in Sox First, on January 27, 2007
...US Attorney's office in San Francisco is in upheaval with the departure of key players into the backdating investigations, including the one involving Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs. But...
in Sox First, on January 26, 2007
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Some interesting questions come out of America's epidemic of stock options backdating scandals. Like how did the practice begin? And why did it spread so quickly? One reason would be the clos...
in Sox First, on January 16, 2007
...arbanes-Oxley was supposed to be about restoring investor confidence, it's failed. The ongoing backdating scandals and the flood of massive executive packages would not have helped.
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in Bizinformer, on January 10, 2007
... With more than 2200 companies possibly engaged in backdating, scores of shareholder derivative suits are in the making.
The scandal has resulted in high executive churn, with more than 30 senior ...
in Sox First, on January 5, 2007
...ed by BusinessWeek writer Peter Burrows after Apple exonerated Steve Jobs of wrongdoing in the backdating scandal. Certainly, I made the point in this blog entry earlier this week that Apple&#...
in Bizinformer, on January 4, 2007
...ring 2006. Only one, former United Health CEO William McGuire, left specifically because of options backdating. Yet, three other companies in the Fortune 100, while not terminating CEOs, have been sub...
in Sox First, on January 4, 2007
...ngs but in 2006 there was only one. The figures become even more striking when you take out the 22 backdating cases. Then the figure drops down to only 90 cases, down 53 per cent from the historic no...
in Sox First, on January 2, 2007
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Apple last week formally exonerated Steve Jobs of any wrongdoing over the options backdating scandal. But the questions linger. Apple's 10K report to the Securities and Exchange Commiss...
in Sox First, on December 28, 2006
...r on the Law.com site . For the benefit of those who have been on mars for most of this year, backdating occurs when a company betrays shareholders and unethically makes its executives rich big ...
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...
in Sox First, on December 19, 2006
...he way hundreds of lucky US company bosses inflated their pay by as much as 10 per cent by secretly backdating share options, with the options being granted at the point of the month when the share ...
in Sox First, on November 26, 2006
...connections coming out of the announcement by Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings that it had been backdating stock option grants from 1995. The President's youngest brother Marvin was a directo...
in Sox First, on November 23, 2006
Yes, it's that time of year to nominate the biggest turkeys since last November. This year's list is extensive. There's no shortage of candidates so I thought better list them all and let you decide.
in Sox First, on November 19, 2006
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So you think backdating stock options is legit? Check a new study which has found that hundreds of US company bosses inflated their pay by as much as 10 per cent by secretly backdating share opti...
in Sox First, on October 21, 2006
... examining whether directors who sit on more than one company board may have spread the practice of backdating stock-option grants, reports Bloomberg . And research from the Corporate Library shows...
in Sox First, on October 17, 2006
So Apple was held up last week as a model of crisis management, with some even claiming Steve Jobs ' statement on its problems with options, and the resignation of Jobs' adviser Fred Anderson, showed that everything was above board. But the questions are continuing. Laurie Flynn ...
in Sox First, on October 5, 2006
...the news report of Apple boss Steve Jobs trying to clear the decks, and distance himself from the backdating scandal at Apple, by apologising to shareholders and employees, swearing it was out of ch...
in Sox First, on September 25, 2006
...e web is buzzing over what can be described as the ultimate golden parachute. Yes, the stock option backdating scandal has reached new depths with revelations that cable TV operator Cablevision S...
in Sox First, on September 9, 2006
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While Congress is looking into what it can do about options backdating and soaring executive pay , some interesting revelations have emerged in Australia about another options scam. ISS Austral...
in Sox First, on September 1, 2006
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So far, the wave of lawsuits and official action arising out of the stock options backdating scams has focused on the public companies that had provided the benefits. But questions are now being ...
in Sox First, on August 14, 2006
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Last week was a big week in the US for options backdating scandals . Former executives of Brocade, former president and CEO Gregory Reyes and former vice president of human resources Stephanie...
in Sox First, on August 3, 2006
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Back in June, I blogged on how the backdating scandal would turn into a lawyers' picnic . Sure enough, the litigation is gathering pace. A growing number of companies are under investigatio...
in Sox First, on July 31, 2006
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Auditors have been put on notice about options backdating. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued its first ever "audit practice alert" on options backdating. "...
in Sox First, on July 28, 2006
...? Don't forget, lawyers are preparing for the next wave of lawsuits in relation to the options backdating scams . And while investors have had little reason to sue in a rising market that had le...
in Sox First, on July 27, 2006
...oney than executive officers named in financial statements. The new rules also weigh in on options backdating and springloading but the new rules apply only to the disclosure, not to questions of whe...
in Sox First, on July 24, 2006
... her former boss, ex-Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes are facing criminal and civil fraud charges over the backdating of options. As part of the scheme, Jensen allegedly created, or instructed others to cre...
in Sox First, on July 21, 2006
The first executives have been charged with fraud in the stock options probe and there are more to come. The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc , Gregory Reyes, and another executive Stephanie Jensen are the first to be charged. The pair also face civil charges and if...
in Sox First, on July 19, 2006
...ise some obvious questions, particularly in the context of the investigations now going on into the backdating of options and potentially illegal pay practices. Still, there might be an upside for in...
in Sox First, on July 17, 2006
Backated options aren't just Limited to a few bad apples! Seems that more than 2200 US companies might have manipulated the timing of stock-option grants to executives between 1996 and 2005, according to a new study . And the study shows that some companies were more likely to do it t...
in Sox First, on July 11, 2006
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The backdating probes are clearly having an impact on performance. Concerned that allegations of executives living it up after backdating options points to another Tyco, Adelphia or WorldCom, pan...
in Sox First, on July 7, 2006
... adviser Glass, Lewis & Co have revealed the warning signs for companies engaging in options backdating practices. The red flags include missing Form 4 filings, options repeatedly granted whe...
in Sox First, on July 3, 2006
With Apple being the latest to admit there have been what it's called "irregularities'' with stock options , the fallout from the scandals is expected to send tremors through Silicon Valley. Stock option chicanery has been disclosed by at least 57 companies, including 25 based...
in Sox First, on June 27, 2006
... to issue stock option grants, says SEC chairman Christopher Cox . Now, to my way of thinking the backdating options is a fundamentally corrupt practice. Setting the grant price at a level which wil...
in Sox First, on June 14, 2006
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Regulators plan to crunch the backdating of options, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox told the Washington Post . And needless to say, the biggest scandal since Enr...
in Sox First, on June 5, 2006
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The fallout from the options backdating scandal continues and the dogs are barking. The number of public companies under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission or federal pro...
in Sox First, on May 31, 2006
Now that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are set to spend the rest of their lives in the slammer, questions are being asked (again) whether it's time to unwind Sarbanes-Oxley. Apparently the system has been shown to work so well that we don't need it.
in Sox First, on May 29, 2006
In the new york times over the weekend, Gretchen Morgenson came out with the rhetorical question Are Enrons Bustin' Out All Over .
in Sox First, on May 26, 2006
That's the Question that's been asked since the jurors brought down the guilty verdict for Lay and Skilling.
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