Red Robin ex-CEO settles SEC fraud charges over pay
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Former Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc.  Chief Executive Michael Snyder agreed to pay a $250,000 civil penalty and to be barred as an officer and director to settle charges he misrepresented personal travel costs as business expenses, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Financial-services giant Citigroup Inc. will pay $250,000 to settle allegations it used misleading sales material on hedge funds, the National Association of Securities Dealers said yesterday.
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Qwest has agreed to pay $250 million to settle financial and disclosure fraud charges, a source familiar with the matter said today.
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American International Group Inc.  agreed to pay &#36;126 million to settle allegations it helped companies fraudulently inflate earnings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday.
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Hewlett-Packard has settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation regardingÂ the resignation of Tom Perkins from its board.
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Qwest Communications International Inc. has tentatively agreed to pay $250 million to settle fraud allegations by federal regulators, a union official said Friday - a move that could help lift a cloud that
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Global grocery retailer Ahold NV and its former chief executive have reached settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over charges related to a $1 billion overstatement of earnings, they said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Brocade Communications Systems has agreed to pay a $7 million penalty to settle charges of stock-option backdating fraud. The payment will settle a civil action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and comes with a permanent injunction against the storage networking company not to break various accounting laws. The SEC's action, announced Thursday, signals that the agency will take strong action against companies accused of backdating fraud. Scores of high-tech companies have either come under federal investigation or started their own probes related to the practice. Former Brocade executives granted tens of millions of stock options to employees and falsified the dates of those grants so that they could hide the cost of the options from shareholders, the SEC charged. Brocade did not admit to or deny the charges. The settlement concludes the SEC action, and Brocade said it does not expect the Department of Justice to take any action against it. "Falsifying compensation expenses is no less misleading to investors than falsifying revenue," said Linda Chatman Thomsen, director of the SEC's enforcement division, in a statement. Brocade's former chairman, president and CEO, Gregory Reyes, as well as former human resources chief Stephanie Jensen and former Chief Financial Officer Antonio Canova, were charged last July with fraud and other securities law violations. "The SEC will use all the weapons in our arsenal, including significant corporate penalties, to protect investors and combat fraudulent stock option backdating," SEC chairman Christopher Cox said in a statement. Backdating is legal and was a common practice in the fevered high-tech job market of the late 1990s as vendors competed for talent with attractive financial packages. But some of the biggest names in IT, including Apple, Broadcom, and McAfee, have been hit by concerns over how they carried it out.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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A former columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com will pay more than $540,000 to settle charges he used his investment newsletter to make profits by promoting stock that he owned.
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David J. Bershad, a former partner in Milberg Weiss & Bershad, has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he helped pay kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities lawsuits.
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Former Enron executive Raymond Bowen  agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges of earnings  manipulation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said  on Monday.
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Walt Disney Co. agreed Monday to settle federal regulators&#39; charges that it failed to disclose benefits received by some directors and their relatives, including former directors
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Enron's ex-head of investor relations pleads guilty to fraud, pays a penalty of $1.49m and agrees to testify against his ex-bosses.
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Thursday&#39;s agreement between Qwest Communications and federal regulator settles allegations of &quot;massive financial fraud&quot; at a price of $250 million.
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Qwest Communications International Inc., the regional telecommunications company, agreed Thursday to pay $250 million to settle allegations that it improperly booked millions in revenue and that senior managers sought to cover it up.
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Former directors of WorldCom Inc.  have agreed to settle investors' claims that they failed to  properly control the telephone company's finances, the lead  plaintiff in the class action case said on Wednesday.
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A former Dow Jones & Company director and three associates will pay more than $24 million to settle charges that they traded illegally on inside knowledge of the News Corporationâs takeover of Dow Jones.