Wendy Howell grabs the headlines


Law.com has the best piece I have read yet concerning Apple's executive options woes, focusing on the attorney who wrote the minutes for the board meeting that apparently never happened...
People like Wendy Howell, the former in-house Apple lawyer responsible for option paperwork, probably won't be attending Jobs' eagerly awaited MacWorld speech Tuesday. Late last year, she became the lone person to lose her job as a result of the company's well-publicized options problems.
Howell's name hasn't been publicly mentioned in the Apple options mess, and her firing wasn't disclosed by the company in its series of public disclosures of options problems.
But she was the person who filled out the paperwork on a 2001 option award to Jobs that has grown infamous since just after Christmas, when Apple acknowledged that the value of the grant was artificially pumped up via a set of fabricated meeting minutes.

I was surprised to read a story in the New York Times about technology investments that quoted Nancy Heinen repeatedly, with nary a mention of her former role as General Counsel for Apple, and a potential witness or target of the on going SEC investigation...

Posted: Sat - January 6, 2007 at 10:23 PM        

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