William Ruehle, the former CFO of Broadcom, an Irvine, Calif.,semiconductor company, warns that executives should be cautiousabout the e-mails they write, according to the Orange CountyRegister. Ruehle has written a memoir, Mr. Ruehle, You Are a FreeMan, about about his experience being charged with illegalbackdating stock options, a case that rested in part on one ofRuehle's e-mails. “Ironically, if you don't want someone to putsomething in e-mail, it makes more sense to say so verbally,” hewrites. The federal charges against Ruehle were dismissed by ajudge in 2009 on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
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