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	<title>US Government Lied</title>
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	<description>Justice is Not Blind</description>
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		<title>Ex-Brocade CEO, Gregory Reyes gets new backdating trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Convictions of Grey Reyes, former CEO of Brocade, were recently overturned in the Nation’s first criminal prosecution for options backdating. A judge granted Reyes a new trial when a prosecutor made false statements to a jury. Reyes was originally sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and fined $15 million after being convicted of 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge throws out stock fraud charges against Broadcom co-founder, ex-CFO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge throws out high profile criminal fraud charges against Broadcom Corporation’s co founder Henry T. Nicholas II and its former Chief Financial Officer when discovering a prosecutor’s attempt to intimidate witnesses and obtain unjustified convictions.
Less than a week ago, Judge Cormac Carney overturned a guilty plea by Henry Samueli, Broadcom’s co founder. Carney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Says Government ‘Distorted the Truth-Finding Process’ in Broadcom Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stock-options backdating case against executives of Broadcom Corp. was recently dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney because it was found that the government&#8217;s handling of the case &#8220;distorted the truth finding process&#8221; and made a mockery of the defendant&#8217;s due process.
Broadcom&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle was completely acquitted. Former CEO and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gregory Reyes’ Backdating Conviction is Reversed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit court dismissed Greg Reyes&#8217; previous conviction regarding the practice of stock option backdating, which he was accused of doing while working for Brocade Communications Inc as a CEO.
The court stated that the prosecutors lied in their closing argument, and that they impeded the truth.
The court&#8217;s statement was backed up by judges Stephen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcom prosecutor admits leaks to media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal prosecutor in the Broadcom options-backdating case admitted to the court that he leaked information to reporters. The assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Stolper said that it was a &#8220;lapse of judgment&#8221;.
The assistant attorney might be called as a witness by Ruehle&#8217;s defense attorneys &#8211; he will be testifying about his conduct in the case.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcom jurors told of prosecutor’s misconduct</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney recently informed the Jury of a prosecutor’s, Andrew Stopler, committed misconduct which resulted in the granting of full immunity to Broadcom Corp. former general counsel and accused co-conspirator: David Dull.
Such misconduct included Stopler making inappropriate remarks to Dull’s lawyers when he stated that Dull could face perjury charges if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rejects backdating case against former Broadcom executives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judge Cormac Carney dismissed all the charges against two defendants in the Broadcom backdating case due to “shameful prosecutorial misconduct and a lack of evidence”.  Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle, as well as CEO Henry Nicholas III, were acquitted of charges.
Evidence in the securities case provided that prosecutors tried to influence the testimony of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial Witness Said to Cast Doubt on Part of Testimony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another flaw has been discovered in the stock options backdating trial of Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes. Elizabeth Moore, a Brocade employee and principal witness in the case disclosed to associates and friends that her testimony may have been untrue. Moore, who had originally testified that Reyes had deceived Brocade, has now retracted her testimony.
In an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brocade witness “recants”; Reyes seeks new trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former CEO of Brocade, Greg Reyes, seeks a new trial when a prosecution witness allegedly recanted some of her testimony. Reyes was convicted for securities fraud, in relation to options backdating. The witness responsible for this is Elizabeth Moore, from Brocade’s finance department.
Moore apparently sent an email to Reye’s house manager stating that one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Corporate Crime Spree</title>
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By Holman W. Jenkins
One of the pleasures of government is the opportunity occasionally to do justice. Team Obama has two such opportunities before it.
Yesterday, a federal appeals court overturned the landmark backdating conviction of former Brocade CEO Greg Reyes on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. His case has been remanded for retrial, but this was a [...]]]></description>
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