There are plenty of stories The Daily Caveat doesn't get the chance to write about. There isn't enough time in the day for all the shenanigans, scullduggery and schaedenfreud one finds in the daily business and legal news.

Given that, here are some things I've been meaning to tell you, and if I don't do it now, they are likely to slip all the way off the radar:

• KLA-Tencor settled quickly with the SEC on stock option backdating charges...

• Jason Edward Steph, former executive of U.S. oil and gas company Willbros International, has been charged with bribery...

• ConAgre settles accounting charges with the SEC for $45 million...

• The former CEO of Brooks Automation, Robert J. Therrien, is facing tax evasion charges...
• Cardinal settles with the SEC for $35 million on inflated earnings reports...

• The CEO of German bank, WestLB has been fired in relation to an ongoing brokerage scandal...

• Irony! An I.D. theft prevention vendor gets his I.D. stolen (and ruins chances of prosecution by coercing a confession)...

Whew... I feel better. And I hope you do too. Now - on to the new news.

-- MDT

Labels: KLA-Tencor, Things I've Been Meaning to Tell You