Paper: Apple Board Did Not Approve CEO Options Grant

Apple Computer gave Chief Executive Steve Jobs 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the required authorization of the company’s board, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Records purporting to show that a full board meeting had taken place to approve the remuneration, as required by Apple’s procedures, were later falsified, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report comes after Apple shares fell as much as 6 percent on Wednesday on a report in legal trade publication The Recorder that federal prosecutors were looking at ‘apparently falsified’ stock option documents in their probe of Apple’s previous grants. Update: Apple released new information about its allocation of stock options on Friday, defending CEO Steve Jobs following speculation that a key document had been forged.

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