The Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil fraud charges against former Apple Inc. General Counsel Nancy Heinen on Tuesday was the agency’s highest-profile condemnation of stock option backdating at a tech company thus far.
But attorneys involved in the case are mixed on whether Heinen’s apparent defense — that she did not backdate options but actually forward-dated them in accordance with what she thought the law allowed — will hold water with a jury.
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