Former Blues owner enters guilty plea (AP)

 
A former owner of the St. Louis Blues hockey team faces sentencing later this year after pleading guilty to a federal charge for backdating stock options. In a plea agreement reached on Monday, former Engineered Support Systems Inc. co-founder Michael Shanahan Sr. also agreed to repay $7.9 million. In exchange for the guilty plea on one count of falsifying the records of a publicly traded company, the... [link]

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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A former owner of the St. Louis Blues hockey team faces sentencing later this year...
Former Blues owner enters guilty plea
A former owner of the St. Louis Blues hockey team faces sentencing later this year after pleading guilty to a federal charge for backdating stock options. In a plea agreement reached on Monday, former Engineered Support Systems Inc. co-founder ...