Topic: William Ruehle

SEC drops civil action against ex-Broadcom execs after California criminal case tossed The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it will not pursue a civil action against four former Broadcom Corp. executives for allegations of securities fraud.The SEC had filed a ...
Federal judge dismisses drug charges, clears Broadcom co-founded Nicholas in civil casesA federal judge has dismissed felony narcotics charges and two civil cases against Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III.The judge's decision Thursday wipes the slate clean for the ...

U.S. dismisses drug case versus Broadcom's Nicholas

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday moved to dismiss drug charges against former Broadcom Corp Chief Executive Henry Nicholas III but said they would appeal a judge's dismissal of charges against Nicholas and another executive related to stock options ...
Federal judge tosses charges against 2 former Broadcom execs in stock-option backdating caseA federal judge Tuesday dismissed all charges against the remaining two defendants in the government's sweeping securities fraud case against chip-maker Broadcom Corp., citing what he called " District Judge ...

Backdating cases dismissed against Broadcom execs

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Tuesday dismissed stock options backdating-related charges against Broadcom Corp co-founder Henry Nicholas and former Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle, citing allegations of misconduct by prosecutors.U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney also ordered ...

Vindication For Henry Nicholas

Just a month ago, it looked like Henry T. Nicholas had a good chance of landing in jail. After years of denying charges ranging from stock options backdating to drug distribution that could have landed the billionaire a sentence of hundreds of ...
Jury set to hear Broadcom backdating case against former CFO RuehleA jury was set Friday to hear opening statements in the federal trial of former Broadcom Corp. Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle, who faces conspiracy and fraud charges in an alleged scheme ...

Stock options trial starts for Broadcom ex-CFO

SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A former Broadcom Corp executive cheated the chip company's investors out of billions by hiding compensation expenses and lining his pockets with the proceeds of backdated stock options, federal prosecutors said on Friday at the trial of ...
Fed appeals panel reverses ruling that excluded evidence in Broadcom exec's backdating trialA federal appeals court has reversed a judge's decision to exclude evidence from the trial of a former Broadcom Corp. executive charged in an alleged stock options backdating ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two current and two former top officers of Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom Corporation for their alleged participation in a five-year systematic scheme to secretly backdate stock options granted to virtually all Broadcom officers and employees ...