Beware the angry general counsel. On Wednesday Kent Roberts, the ex-general counsel of McAfee, sued his former employer for defamation, invasion of privacy and malicious prosecution. Roberts, who was acquitted of fraud in a three-week trial last year, is accusing McAfee of making him the scapegoat in the company’s stock option backdating scandal. What’s more, he accuses the company’s outside lawyers at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Howrey of helping to frame him.
The suit, filed in federal district court in San Francisco, says that officials at Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee gave misleading information about Roberts to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Roberts is seeking unspecified damages.
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