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Jan. 19, 2013

Broadcom executive recounts the trial of his life

Three years later, the judge's words as he acquitted William Ruehle have taken center stage in the title of Ruehle's account of his ordeal: "Mr. Ruehle, You Are a Free Man - A Broadcom Saga: My Fight for Justice." By Maurice Possley


By Maurice Possley


In the late spring of 2005, a finance professor at the University of Iowa triggered a spasm of civil and criminal investigations of top corporate executives that was at that time virtually unprecedented in American financial history - the investigation of stock options backdating by corporations across the nation.


Within five years, regulatory and criminal investigations created a financial firestorm that eventually consumed the energ...

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