Ontario Securities Commission

Backdating Settlement in Motion, Redux

John Paczkowski in News on February 17, 2009 at 3:52 pm PT

Two weeks after Canadian regulators dropped the hammer on Blackberry maker Research-In-Motion for its stock option backdating scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped it again. Today, the agency charged four RIM execs with illegally granting stock options to company employees over an eight-year period from 1998 through 2006.