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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by joering2 on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:15PM (#22017864)
> Drummond was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005 with causing Google to violate securities law because he failed to advise the company's board that the company was required to register $80 million in stock options used as compensation for employees.[1]

Do you know anyone who would hire someone after making a $80MM mistake??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drummond_(businessman)

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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by swedish_mafia on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:32AM (#22019551)
And this https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-a...
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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by LanceH on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:24PM (#22018116)
Not entirely sure about the date, but wasn't everyone backdating options and/or marking them as zero cost to the company?
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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by rlucas on Saturday January 11, 2020 @12:41AM (#22018379)
In the late 1990s "everyone" was doing so -- and then a nonzero percentage of "everyone" went to jail for it. By 2005 people were on notice.
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