The founder and former CEO of Iconix Brand Group Inc. has been indicted in an alleged accounting and securities fraud scheme at the New York-based brand licensing firm, after another former senior executive pleaded guilty to similar charges earlier in the week.

Manhattan federal prosecutors on Thursday said that Neil Cole, who resigned as Iconix’s chief executive in 2015, had plotted to pump up key financial metrics that investors used to assess whether the company was growing, and later tried to scuttle a regulatory probe into Iconix’s accounting practices.

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