That's because people who hate Apple, like you, keep bringing up a settled issue. You do realize this hurts shareholder value, right? Of course you do. How much is Microsoft paying you?
This was an industry-wide issue, with hundreds of companies caught up in it. Some of them were actually found to be abusing stock options. Some, like Microsoft, stopped doing it years ago, taking a $200 million charge to do it (where were the shareholder suits over that?).
And, yes, fudged paperwork due to an oversight. It's illegal to do that even when you're doing it about something that was itself perfectly legal. Basically, she cut corners instead of correcting the oversight the proper, and legal, way.
Sorry, your innuendo and libel are going nowhere. The courts and the SEC cleared Apple and Jobs. It ends there.
Chortle!
Ummm.. I didn't write those articles.
Those 2 articles were from the Apple loving Fortune magazine, and from Marketwatch, which almost always shills for Apple.
One of the articles was written when the SEC brought up charges in May this year on the Apple stock options backdating scandal.
They are business publications. They SHOULD cover such a story, unless you are suggesting that Apple is above the law and Steve Jobs is The Messiah (0bama Junior), or that that Apple should get a special dispensation to break the law and not get it reported in the news?
“This was an industry-wide issue, with hundreds of companies caught up in it.”
Hundreds of murders are committed in New York City every year. That doesn't make killing someone legal does it?
” Some of them were actually found to be abusing stock options.”
Including Apple CEO, who settled with the SEC.
” Some, like Microsoft, stopped doing it years ago, taking a $200 million charge to do it (where were the shareholder suits over that?).”
ROFL!
Microsoft didn't do options backdating.
They merely stopped offering any stock options altogether, which happens to be very legal.
Way to try and change the topic and throw ineffective laughable bombs.
What more ya got?
No fudged paperwork
Deliberate, pre meditated backdating of stock options by Apple execs in order to profit.
Former Apple finance chief Anderson — who settled with the SEC — issued his own statement, in which he said he had warned Jobs specifically of the implications of backdating.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-apple-cfo-says-jobs-was-warned-of-options-dates
“Fudged paperwork” huh?
Don't make me laugh!
“Basically, she cut corners instead of correcting the oversight the proper, and legal, way”
Nope.
and currently 3 people have been charged by the SEC ( former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, former general counsel Nancy Heinen, and Ann Mather), so far, not just one woman. But hey, just keep ya head in the sand like an ostrich.
“Sorry, your innuendo and libel are going nowhere. The courts and the SEC cleared Apple and Jobs. It ends there”
You wish.
The SEC has brought new charges against Ann Mather on this same stock options back dating. That means they are still investigating the case, and were not happy with the answers that Apple gave them.