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The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Rich Duprey	Backdating Boredom It seems everyone from investors to the justice system is tiring of the stock options scandal.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2006 Rich Duprey	Backdating Battle The SEC investigates stock option backdating at a dozen companies. Should the investigations uncover actual proof of wrongdoing at these or other companies, not only should the executives be held accountable for their actions, but the boards of directors should be punished as well.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2006 Rich Duprey	KLA's Optional Disclosure The chip manufacturer waits for a long weekend to announce the results of an options probe. The ultimate cost to the company and the amount of restating that will have to take place will likely be significant. Investors, take note.
InternetNews May 31, 2007 Clint Boulton	SEC Settles Backdating Cases With Mercury, Brocade The Securities and Exchange Commission settled stock-option backdating cases with Mercury Interactive and Brocade Communications Systems totaling $35 million.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Anders Bylund	Apple Gets Back to Business Apple puts to rest one of the many stock options scandals. Investors can get back to timely and complete earnings releases when the first quarterly report of fiscal 2007 comes due in a couple of weeks.
InternetNews October 4, 2006 David Needle	Jobs Knew of Backdating Apple Computer released results today of an investigation into the backdating of stock option grants, saying it found that CEO Steve Jobs was aware of the practice.
BusinessWeek July 10, 2006 Jane Sasseen	A Board With Its Back To The Wall UnitedHealth directors aren't ready to oust embattled CEO McGuire. Here's why.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Rich Duprey	Digital River Bound for Rough Waters? The e-commerce outsource provider may have lurking backdating concerns. Investors, take note.
InternetNews July 5, 2006 Clint Boulton	Mercury Heads May Face Stock-Option Probe The SEC may pursue three Mercury Interactive directors in relation to a stock-option grant backdating scandal.
InternetNews August 23, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sympathy For Stock Option Backdaters? Whatever you want to call the chowder pot of stock option backdating cases, it still boils down to sketchy accounting.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2006 Rich Duprey	Meade Zooms In on Options The telescope maker finds stock-option errors but says they're not related to backdating scandals. When the company gets around to finally filing its revised financial statements, let's hope shareholders aren't knocked so badly that they're seeing stars.
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Clint Boulton	Apple Stock Option Probe Escalates Apple Computer Inc. said it may have to restate past financial results after uncovering additional accounting regularities during its internal investigation into stock option grants.
InternetNews August 7, 2007 Larry Barrett	Ex-Brocade CEO Convicted in Backdating Scandal Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory L. Reyes was convicted Tuesday of defrauding investors by improperly disclosing the backdating of stock options and filing false financial statements.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Anders Bylund	Options Inquiry Weighs on Openwave A beleaguered cell-phone software maker faces lawsuits for wrongs as-yet unproven. For now, investors must wait and see what the internal and external investigations find in Openwave's books.
BusinessWeek October 30, 2006 Peter Burrows	In The Valley, Scars That Could Last A Long Time Not a day seems to pass without an announcement that a company has dug up options bookkeeping misdeeds and is firing top executives and restating financials.
InternetNews August 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Comverse Fires Former Execs Over Options Scandal Comverse Technology has fired three of its top executives a week after they were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2007 Lawrence Rothman	TurboChef Wastes Fuel Marketing costs and an SEC inquiry sap money from the cooking-systems company. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2007 Rich Duprey	Apple's Rotting Core? Although the computer maker absolved its CEO of wrongdoing, should investors be so lenient?
InternetNews September 11, 2006 Clint Boulton	Dell Delaying Earnings Report Dell today said it will delay filing its second-quarter financial filing due to questions raised from the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the computer maker's accounting and financial reporting.
InternetNews April 24, 2007 Michael Hickins	SEC Charges Former Apple Attorney With Fraud SEC levies fraud charges at Apple's former general counsel and settles with its former CFO in connection with a stock options backdating scandal.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2006 Rich Duprey	Options Run Out at Comverse Greed strikes again. A financial officer at the telecom-software provider pleads guilty for his role in another backdating scandal.
InternetNews July 21, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Former Brocade Execs Charged in Stock Scandal Brocade becomes just the latest caught in the stock options mess. Feds say the company fraud cost investors millions.
InternetNews September 21, 2007 David Needle	Steve Jobs to Testify in Backdating Case Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a stock-options back-dating case against Apple's former general counsel, Nancy Heinen.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Grand Jury Tunes In to CNET A month after the SEC began an inquiry into the potential backdating of stock option grants at CNET Networks, a grand jury subpoena has also been issued to get to the bottom of this. Shares are trading more than 4% lower today on the news.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2006 Philip Durell	An Open Letter to UnitedHealth's Chairman The possibility of the backdating of stock options has cast a shadow over the company's long-term outperformance. Investors, take note.
Entrepreneur November 2009	Candid Talk About Stock Options Companies are clear: Stock options may not gain value. But employees still expect them. A burned senior VP at a big bank says just to cut her a bonus check.
BusinessWeek March 5, 2007 Peter Burrows	A Smaller Options Scandal? The campaign to lock up accused backdaters is moving slowly. Here's how a key case is playing out.
InternetNews June 5, 2007 Clint Boulton	IBM, SEC Come to Terms Over Financial Gripe IBM settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission today for issuing misleading statements about the impact of employee stock options on its 2005 earnings.
InternetNews January 17, 2008	Brocade ex-CEO Sentenced in Backdating Mess Brocade Communications Systems' former CEO was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for backdating stock-option grants in a scandal that has ensnared scores of U.S. companies and led to billions of dollars of restatements.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2006	Foolish Mid-Year Review: Grabbing Investors' Attention Backdating, hedge funds, and Home Depot made up the more memorable -- and infamous -- moments of early '06. Home Depot Abdicates Responsibility by Rich Duprey... Listen, Learn, Change by Ryan Fuhrmann... etc.
CFO January 1, 2008 Alix Stuart	Refusing to Roll Over One CFO refuses to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over accusations of backdating.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Stock Options Scandal Hits Comverse Federal authorities charge Comverse Technology's former CEO and two others with criminal and civil complaints.
Wall Street & Technology February 21, 2007 Ben Rothke	Weak Enforcement of Corporate Governance and Lax Technical Controls Have Enabled the Illegal Backdating of Stock Options Regulations focusing on backdating have prompted corporations to pursue technical solutions centered around time synchronization to eradicate the practice.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Rich Duprey	UnitedHealth's CEO Weighs His Options As one of the prime beneficiaries of the backdating scandal, the insurer's CEO decides to step down. It's a nice gesture, but a little hollow at this point.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2006 Anders Bylund	SEC's Positively Foolish Option Accounting Rules New SEC rules may put a stop to backdating scandals.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2006 David Lee Smith	Monster's Monstrous Contretemps The job-listing service is the latest to join the backdating club. So where will this stock-option dishonesty lead us? Most of the companies besmirched by stock-option dating irregularities have seen their share prices remain generally unaffected.
InternetNews August 10, 2006 Paul Shread	Juniper Hit By Options Probe Juniper Networks on Thursday became the latest tech company to get hit by the growing stock option scandal... Stocks posted solid gains... Salesforce.com climbed 6.5% on a Citigroup upgrade... etc.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Catherine Pickavet	VeriSign to Restate $250M Following Options Probe Internet security company VeriSign will be forced to restate as much as $250 million in earnings during 2001 to 2005 and part of 2006 due to what it termed "incorrect measurement dates" and other administrative blunders.
BusinessWeek September 11, 2006 David Henry	How The Options Mess Got So Ugly--And Expensive As stock option grants soared in the 1990s, so did the temptation to cheat when issuing them.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2007 Steven Mallas	Take-Two's Option Game Like many other companies, Take-Two Interactive has problems with options. Should investors avoid it?
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Rich Duprey	Backdating Al Capone Tax bills will be due soon in the options backdating scandal that will likely sink many executives. In addition to misrepresenting to the IRS the real profits earned, backdating also misrepresents the true cost of stock options to shareholders.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 Rich Duprey	Is Backdating Really So Bad? Is repricing options really a crime, or simply a mild accounting gimmick? However, backdating stock options carries a real cost to shareholders.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Rich Duprey	Backdating Scandals Enter Final Lap The sentencing of Brocade's CEO shows that the race is almost run -- and shareholders have lost.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Dawn Kopecki	Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Rob Plaza	Altera: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time Management suggests that the worst is over and issues bullish guidance for the fourth quarter, but the bullish outlook is already priced in.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Anne Tergesen	Those Options Could Cost You The executives responsible for backdating employee stock options are in big trouble, facing everything from shareholder lawsuits and tax audits to possible jail time. But now innocent employees who received certain kinds of options may get caught in the snare, too.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Hoping for Progress The beleaguered software maker steps up to the plate to deliver its earnings report for fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Backdating Scandal Bites Apple Apple may "think different" when it comes to accounting practices, too. The company announced that an internal investigation led to the uncovering of mishandled stock option grants between 1997 and 2001. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Scandal Saps Sapient's Strength The business software and services provider will report preliminary third-quarter 2006 financial results because the company still has not completed its stock-option backdating review.
CFO April 1, 2007 Roy Harris	Say Again? An explosion in accounting errors -- in part reflecting the difficulties of today's complex rules -- has forced nearly a quarter of U.S. companies to learn the art of the restatement.