In his last three years as chief executive officer of KB Home, Bruce Karatz made $232 million, most of it from stock options of the high-flying homebuilder.

But many more options were backdated so that Karatz could pocket millions of dollars in undisclosed compensation, say federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, who go to trial on Tuesday against Karatz.

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