US financial regulators are said to be investigating thepossibility that last week’s report that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attackwas an attempt to manipulate Apple’s stock price for financial gain.
Apple stock dropped by 8% on Friday as a result of thereports, posted by a ‘citizen journalist’ on the website of US news station CNN.The cable network is understood to be ‘co-operating fully’ according to the UStechnology press.
The SEC has traditionally taken a very dim view of this kindof activity. Back in 2001 it successfully prosecuted a disgruntled formeremployee of an internet newswire service who falsely implicated storage vendor Emulexin a financial scandal.
Apple itself has not escaped the SEC’s attentions in thepast. Earlier in the year regulators settled a stock options backdating caseagainst former Apple lawyer Nancy Heinen, who is now being forced to pay backover $2m of ill-gotten gains.
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