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The documents Apple has produced provide critical details about Apple's backdating practices and confirm that all of Apple's directors were aware of and participated in the backdating scheme

Directors and others close to the Apple probe defended Mr. Jobs, the company's iconic chief executive, even as it detailed his part in a widespread pattern of options irregularities between 1997 and 2002. But Mr. Jobs and Apple, still under federal scrutiny as part of a broad investigation of options backdating, are not yet out of the woods.