[JURIST] The former general counsel for computer security company McAfee [corporate website] was indicted Tuesday by the Department of Justice for concealing an illegal stock option backdating scheme. The DOJ charged [PDF indictment] Kent Roberts with six counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and filing false SEC documents. The indictment alleged that as part of the scheme to defraud McAfee (formerly known as Network Associates), its investors, the SEC, and the public, Roberts:

fraudulently granted himself extra compensation by causing the grant date for his stock options grant to be changed in Network Associate's books and records so that the exercise price of the grant would be lower and so that it appeared that the grant was made on the new fabricated grant date.