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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Monster Worldwide, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Randstad
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Penalty: $2,500,000
Year: 2009
Date: May 18, 2009
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: accounting fraud or deficiencies
Violation Description: Monster agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty to settle the SEC's charges that the company defrauded investors by granting backdated, undisclosed in-the-money stock options while failing to record required non-cash charges for option-related compensation expenses.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Securities and Exchange Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: Netherlands
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: business services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: business services
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