Its open season on stock option backdaters, and federal securities authorities have a new suspect in their sights.
A former chief executive of Brooks Automation, Inc., a Chelmsford, Massachusetts, software company, was slapped with a criminal tax evasion charge Wednesday, the same day he was charged with a civil complaint that he manipulated stock options between 1999 and 2005, fraudulently gaining more than $10 million.
Both charges were filed Wednesday against Robert J. Therrien, of Osterville, Massachusetts, who is also a former president of the company, which makes equipment used in microchip factories.
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