Apple Directors Swipe Back At Fred Anderson

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Today, Apple directors Bill Campbell, Millard Drexler, Al Gore, Arthur Levinson, Eric Schmidt and Jerry York issued a statement of their own:

Until he resigned last year, Anderson sat at the same table with the company's directors, as a director himself. Yesterday, Anderson settled charges against him filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting wrongdoing in the case, which involved the backdating of stock options for several company executives during the early 2000s. Former Apple General Counsel Nancy Heinen was also charged Tuesday, and that case is pending.

The statement crossed the wires minutes before Apple was expected to post its second quarter earnings.