You can issue options at any price you like, can backdate them, no problems.
Rambus was one of dozens of companies investigated by the SEC for allegedly allowing executives to backdate their stock option grants.
Officers are furious at Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's decision not to backdate a 2.5% pay rise for police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
By playing last weekend, New York lost the chance to backdate the move to April 21 and could make it only retroactive to Sunday.
The Commerce Department agreed, and went on to backdate the duty to May, claiming an unjustified inflow of Canadian wood since the agreement expired.
By playing Youkilis last weekend, the Yankees lost the chance to backdate the move to April 21 and could only make it retroactive to Sunday.
Such policies would have come in handy for the roughly two dozen general counsels who were fired for allegedly helping their bosses backdate options grants.
Those who backdate options grants violate federal and state law.
Rule of thumb: If the partner asks you to backdate a document or create a signed checklist where there was none during the audit, you may be sanctioned someday.
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The U.S. Attorney charges that the men devised a scheme to backdate millions of stock options granted to themselves and their employees to days when Comverse stock was trading at periodic lows.
Wednesday's events come just a few weeks after federal prosecutors in San Francisco and the SEC charged two former top executives of Brocade Communications Systems with a scheme to backdate employee stock options.
She said she was in the room when Armstrong and two other team officials came up with a plan to backdate a prescription for corticosteroids to explain a positive steroid test result during the 1999 Tour de France.
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She also said she was in the room when Armstrong and two other team officials came up with a plan to backdate a prescription for corticosteroids for a saddle sore to explain a positive steroid test result during the 1999 Tour de France.
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According to the SEC, the Quantek hedge fund made loans to affiliates of Guerra and his Bultick Capital Markets Holdings that were not properly documented or secured, leading employees to later re-create the missing related-party loan documents, but misstate important loan terms and backdate materials to cover up the situation.
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She told the agency she engaged in clandestine trips to pick up and drop off what she assumed were doping products, and said she was in the room when Armstrong and two other team officials came up with a plan to backdate a prescription for corticosteroids for a saddle sore to explain a positive steroid test result during the 1999 Tour de France.
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