BACKDATED STOCK OPTIONS
 

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP Now Investigating Stock Options Backdating Practices By Costco Wholesale

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP is currently investigating stock options backdating practices at over 100 companies, including Costco Wholesale.

Regarding Costco Wholesale, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, "Costco said March 19, 2007 that a federal grand jury had issued a subpoena over stock-option granting practices, following an internal investigation that found "imprecisions" with stock grants last year. The probe had identified problems with the dates of certain grants, but found no evidence of fraud, concealment or "intentional deviation from generally accepted accounting principles," the company said. The company took a $46.4 million charge in the second quarter to remedy income tax problems related to the options grants.”

If you are a current stockholder in Costco Wholesale and would like to learn about your legal rights in seeking to remedy improper options backdating at the company, please click here or call 800-287-8119 to contact our paralegal, Victoria Bird.  Our initial consultation and case assessment will be done at no charge or obligation to you.

Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP is a leading force in bringing lawsuits on behalf of shareholders who own stock in corporations implicated in the rampant and ongoing stock options backdating scandal.  Led by attorneys Edward F. Haber and Michelle H. Blauner, our firm has already filed numerous cases, in both state and federal courts, concerning the improper backdating of stock options granted to officers, directors, and executives who appear to have used backdated stock options to create for themselves tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars in profit and unrealized gain at the direct expense of their corporations.

To learn more about our efforts targeting unlawful corporate stock options practices at corporations nationwide, please click here to view our main stock options backdating webpage, which contains detailed explanations of stock options, option backdating, and why option backdating can be illegal.  Also featured are complaints filed by our firm in other stock options backdating cases, as well as a full list of all the corporations we are currently investigating.