Ex-Comverse GC Loses FOIA Bid Tied To 'Backdating' Scam

By Dunstan Prial, Law360, Nov. 29, 2017

A New York federal judge dismissed a Freedom of Information Act suit Tuesday, brought by the former general counsel of Comverse Technology Inc. who was seeking documents related to his 2006 guilty plea in a stock options “backdating” scheme, saying his claims the government may have improperly pursued his case didn't outweigh witnesses' privacy.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein found in a 25-page summary judgment that William F. Sorin had not shown that releasing the documents was in the public interest and said the U.S. Department of Justice was correct in withholding the documents Sorin was seeking in his FOIA suit.

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