{"id":135,"date":"2006-08-21T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/former-comverse-chief-flees\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T06:37:15","slug":"former-comverse-chief-flees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/former-comverse-chief-flees\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Comverse Chief Flees"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>New York Times<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/16\/business\/worldbusiness\/16options.html\">F.B.I. Calls Ex-Comverse Chief a Fugitive, and Casts a Wide Net<\/a>.  The hunt for Jacob Alexander, known as Kobi, was stepped up yesterday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared him a fugitive and said agents were seeking his arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.fbi.gov\/dojpressrel\/pressrel06\/stockoptionfraud080906.htm\">Department of Justice<\/a> announced that three former executives of Comverse Technology Inc. (&#8220;Comverse&#8221;), a publicly-held computer software company, were charged for their roles in orchestrating a long-running scheme to manipulate the grant of millions of Comverse stock options to themselves and to employees. Former Chief Executive Officer Jacob &#8220;Kobi&#8221; Alexander, former Chief Financial Officer David Kreinberg, and former General Counsel William F. Sorin allegedly orchestrated the scheme by fraudulently backdating the options and operating a secret stock options slush fund.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/4321.shtml\">Comverse Technology contracts<\/a> to the website, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/comverse\/alexander.emp.1994.07.01.shtml\">Employment Agreement between Comverse Technology Inc. and Kobi Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: F.B.I. Calls Ex-Comverse Chief a Fugitive, and Casts a Wide Net. The hunt for Jacob Alexander, known as Kobi, was stepped up yesterday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared him a fugitive and said agents were seeking his arrest. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced that three former executives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation","category-stock-options"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}