10 years later, fugitive CEO pleads guilty to options backdating
Although the days of “options backdating” prosecutions are long past, the case against former Comverse Technology CEO Jacob Alexander, a fugitive in Namibia since 2006, ended just this week with his appearance before an unsympathetic federal judge. Bruce Carton has more.
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