Word: unitedhealth
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...During his time at Alston, a wide range of for-profit enterprises with interests in influencing government health policy - including giants like UnitedHealth, GE Healthcare and the Health Industry Distributors Association - paid Daschle five-figure sums for speeches. UnitedHealth was also a "client" of Daschle's at Alston, as was the Great Plains Indian Gaming Association, a trade group representing tribes with casinos in the upper Midwest. And then there is Leo Hindery Jr., the former chairman of the cable-television industry's lobbying group, who hired Daschle as an adviser on a new investment firm and gifted him more...
...other companies, required CEOs and CFOs of companies that have to restate earnings because of financial misconduct to pay back bonuses and incentive compensation. But that provision proved largely ineffective. The SEC didn't bring a case under this provision for four years, and when it finally found success - UnitedHealth's former CEO was forced to pay back more than $400 million worth of stock options gains, unexercised options and retirement pay after a stock options backdating scandal - the courts ruled that shareholders on their own couldn't sue under the law, setting a narrow precedent for who is allowed...
...Journal’s team of Charles Forelle, James Bandler, and Mark Maremont laid bare a scheme in which companies timed their options grants to dates when their stock prices were particularly low without informing shareholders. More than 130 companies, including UnitedHealth Group and Apple, are under federal investigation in the wake of the Journal’s series, and more than 60 executives have been terminated...
...UnitedHealth Group...