Apple forged documents

At the time the in-house report was released, Apple fanboys wrote to us and said that we could leave off the outfit now because it had been cleared by the internal report.

In fact the three-month internal probe, conducted by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, while clearing Steve Jobs of involvement, said "the investigation raised serious concerns regarding the actions of two former officers in connection with the accounting, recording and reporting of stock option grants."

According to Law.com, what the internal report did not say publically was that the key documents had been faked. These documents are now important to government investigators who are looking at criminal charges in the Apple case.

Not talking specifically about the Apple case, Keith Krakaur, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom said that when there are falsified documents, the government views them as an intent to defraud, because people generally don't falsify documents unless they're trying to make things different from reality.

Apple spinners are keeping characteristically quiet about the news.

One thing that Law.com noted is that Jobs has apparently decided that he needs his own legal representation, separate from Apple's lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers. He has hired his own attorney to deal with the SEC and Justice Department.

It will take some months before anyone knows if anyone at Apple, will face criminal charges.

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