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Backdating: CEOs Playing “The Dating Game 2.0?”

Earlier this year, we blogged about evidence from insider gifts that backdating was alive and well.  Now a recent study says that there’s a new twist on option backdating – instead of manipulating the timing of equity awards, CEOs are supposedly manipulating the … Continue reading

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KB Homes CEO Sentencing Today for Backdating Options

In a very short piece on NPR's Marketplace this morning, I opined on the possible sentencing of Bruce Karatz, the former CEO of KB Homes. The piece (here) is certainly a reasonable attribution of what I said, although, in true… … Continue reading

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SEC sees Apple backdating as one-woman fraud spree

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Disney clears (wink-wink) Steve Jobs of options backdating misconduct at Pixar

On Friday, in a terse, one-paragraph statement that was even more opaque than the very similar one Apple (AAPL) issued in December, the audit committee at Walt Disney Co. (DIS) cleared Steve Jobs of any “intentional or deliberate acts of … Continue reading

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