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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Backdating IndyMac, Banks Mum on Bailout, ATM Marketing and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulator let troubled bank backdate records -- Darrell Dochow, top West Coast official of The Office of Thrift Supervision, has ben reassigned following accusations that he let IndyMac Bancorp backdate records. Doing so let the mortgage lender appear to be healthy just before it was seized by the government. [Source:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:16:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC, Apple&#39;s former lawyer settle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former top lawyer for Apple agreed to settle federal charges against her that she helped to fraudulently backdate stock-option grants to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives, regulators said Thursday.     Nancy Heinen, Apple's former general counsel, did not admit or deny guilt. But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-Apple official settles with SEC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs.    The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apple Not Quite Off the Backdating Hook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Department of Justice ended a two year criminal probe into stock backdating at Apple. But that's not the end of legal troubles.  Civil actions are proceeding, however. The S.E.C. brought charges against [former chief counsel Nancy] Heinen and [former CFO Fred] Andersen in a civil suit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Backdating Settlement Doesn't End UnitedHealth's Problems]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old health-insurance scandal just keeps on giving at UnitedHealth, which today settled a shareholder lawsuit over the way it backdated stock options for its former CEO Bill McGuire and other execs. The insurer will pay $895 million to resolve claims by Calpers, the giant California public-pension fund, that the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:10:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate governance litigation: 2007 review: report from Delaware: a spotlight on several court rulings that moved the governance needle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HARSH CONSEQUENCES of being a faithless fiduciary were evident in 2007, when increased efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorneys' Offices resulted in a wave of indictments, convictions, and guilty pleas. In May 2007, the former general counsel of Comverse Technology became the first executive to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-Broadcom exec charged with stock-option backdating (Electronic News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Tullos has agreed to pay more than $1.3 million in  disgorgement and prejudgment interest. She further agreed to  pay a civil penalty of $100,000.       The Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov SEC has charged Nancy M. Tullos, Broadcom Corp's www.broadcom.com http://www.broadcom.com former...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Johnson Bottini, LLP Announces Update on Brocade Options Backdating Case]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO -- Johnson Bottini, LLP, Co-Lead Counsel in the shareholder derivative lawsuit involving the manipulation of stock options at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., announces the following update on the case. Several motions in the case will be heard on March 28, 2008 in Santa Clara, California. Plaintiffs are seeking...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gradient Analytics' Report on Comverse Executive Avoiding Taxes by Backdating Confirmed by Internal Investigation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A Gradient Analytics report that Comverse Technology's CEO may have backdated the exercise of stock options to avoid higher taxes has been confirmed by the company's own internal investigation, Gradient announced today.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Beware Calendar Cash: The Feds Look Into Backdating Schemes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5723/is_200801/ai_n25294995]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC have been keeping watch the last several years for the backdating of stock options. Nationwide, more than 140 companies are under investigation by the SEC and the Department of Justice DOJ for pRegulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC have been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maxim Integrated is hit with fraud charges]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators filed fraud charges Tuesday against Maxim Integrated Products and two of the company's former top executives, continuing the government's two-year-long crackdown on stock-option backdating.     The Securities and Exchange Commission, in a civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, alleged that Silicon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-Maxim executives charged]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Securities regulators on Tuesday sued Maxim Integrated Products Inc., a Silicon Valley semiconductor company, and two of its former executives for allegedly falsifying financial information by improperly backdating stock option grants to employees and directors.    Maxim's net income was inflated by more than 10 percent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zions' way of valuing stock options OK'd]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a market-based method for valuing employee stock options, which could make the popular perks worth less and reduce the expense to companies.   Financial services company Zions Bancorp said Monday the SEC's chief accountant had given final approval to its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Delaware Court Denies Staples' Motion to Dismiss Shareholder Suit Alleging Backdating of Stock Options, Announces Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP and Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Sept_20/ai_n27381647]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The Delaware Court of Chancery has denied a motion by Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) and certain of its officers and directors to dismiss a derivative lawsuit brought by a stockholder of the company, announces Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP and Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C. The lawsuit alleges...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Backdating, Spring-Loading Cases Have Legs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5740/is_200709/ai_n23769278]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SHAREHOLDER SUITSProsecutors in options backdating and spring-loading cases have the wind at their backs, and they know it. Just ten days after the stunning conviction of Gregory L Reyes, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., on one count of conspiracy, four counts each of securities fraud and lying to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brocade former CFO faces charges in company stock backdating scandal (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200708/ai_n23910742]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest display of the seriousness with which the federal government is taking accounting-related crimes http://www.edn.com/article/CA6338353.html within the tech industry, yet another former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. http://www.broc      In the latest display of the seriousness with which the federal government is taking accounting-related crimes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC charges KLA, former CEO for 'illicit' backdating scheme (Electronic News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5934/is_200707/ai_n23910600]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov SEC on Wednesday filed charges against KLA-Tencor Corp. http://www.kla-tencor.com and its former CEO, Kenneth L. Schroeder, alleging that they engaged in what it called an "illicit sch      The Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov SEC on Wednesday filed charges against...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-CEO, CFO charged in backdating cases]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200707/ai_n19396996]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal officials stepped up their crackdown in the nationwide stock-option backdating scandals, announcing civil and criminal charges Wednesday against former executives of a major Silicon Valley company and a Maryland-based software firm.     In San Francisco, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Kenneth Schroeder, former CEO of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Former Chief Executive Officer of Brooks Automation Charged With Backdating Exercise of Stock Options]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200707/ai_n21911042]]></link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Former Chief Financial Officer of SafeNet, Inc. Charged in Connection With Backdating of Stock Options]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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