Executive | Company | Title | Year/event | Amount | Clawback/forfeiture |
William McGuire | United
Health UNH | CEO | 2007/Illegal
stock option backdating gains 2003-06 | $600
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Dennis
Kozlowski | Tyco AR:TYC | CEO | 2012/Massive
fraud that resulted in litigation by company | $505.8
million | Tyco
litigation |
John Stumpf | Wells
Fargo WFC | CEO | 2016/Retail
accounts fraud | $41
million | Company
forced forfeiture of future compensation |
Kobi
Alexander | Comverse | CEO | 2016/Options
backdating in 2016 | $26.2
million | SEC
forced disgorgement |
Carrie
Tolstedt | Wells
Fargo WFC | EVP | 2016/Retail
accounts fraud | $19
million | Company
forced forfeiture of future compensation |
Jamie
Dimon | JPM JPM | CEO | 2012/“London
Whale” loss of 2011 | $11.5
million | Company
forced forfeiture of future compensation |
Ian
McCarthy | Beazer BZH | CEO | 2011/Restatement
of 2006 results as a result of accounting fraud | $6.5
million cash, 40,103 restricted stock units (or its equivalent), and 78,763
shares of restricted stock (or its equivalent). | SEC
SOx clawback |
Doug Braunstein | JPM JPM | CFO | 2012/“London
Whale” loss | $4.5
million | Company
forced forfeiture of future compensation. |
Michael
Laphen | CSC US:CSC | CEO | 2015/Accounting
fraud in 2010-12 | $3.7
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Maynard
Jenkins | CSK | CEO | 2011/Fraud
in 2002-04 | $2.8
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Babak
Yazdani | Saba | CEO | 2015/Fraud
in 2008-12 | $2.5
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Carl
Jasper | Maxim | CFO | 2006/Related
to restatement of 2002-05 results | $1.8
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Daniel
Ustian | Navistar US:NAV | CEO | 2005/Restatement
of 2000-02 results due to accounting fraud | $1.3
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
James
O’Leary | Beazer BZH | CFO | 2011/Restatement
of 2006 results owing to accounting fraud | $1
million cash bonus, $131,733 for all restricted stock units and $274,525 in
stock sale profits. | SEC
SOx clawback |
Robert
Lannert | Navistar US:NAV | CFO | 2005/Restatement
of 2000-02 due to accounting fraud | $1.1
million | SEC
SOx clawback |
Michael
Strianese | L3
Communications US:LVLT | CEO | 2014/Internal
review of misconduct and accounting errors resulting in $146 million
adjustment for 2011-14 | $1.1
million | Company
clawback |
Michael Koss | Koss KOSS | CEO | 2011/Fraud
and embezzlement that occurred in 2005-09 | $242,419
in cash and 160,000 of options plus previous voluntary reimbursement of
$208,895 for 2008-2010 bonuses. | SEC
SOx clawback |
Walden O’Dell | Diebold DBD | CEO | 2010/Accounting
fraud | SEC
SOx clawback |
Ina Drew, Achilles Macris, Javier Martin-Artajo and Bruno
Iksil | JPM JPM | Various | 2012/“London
Whale” loss | Unknown | Company
didn’t disclose amounts in SEC filings but told press at the time it would
represent about two years of total annual compensation and include restricted
stock and canceled stock options grants. |
|
Source:MarketWatch analysis of top take-backs since 2002
based on SEC enforcement orders and company SEC filings, with Audit Analytics
data-gathering assistance. |