How Thomas Kean Covered Up His OWN Crimes
1) Thomas Kean is a director at United Health Group
Inc.
http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/invest/2001/ar2001_leaders_p58.pdf#search=%22thomas%20kean%20and%20unitedhealth%22
Thomas H. Kean
President
Drew University
Compensation and Human
Resources Committee
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2) Thomas kean covers up the company stock option
backdating scandal:
boomantribune.com/story/2006/8/11/195638/195
Backdating stock options: The plot thickens
by PsiFighter37?Fri Aug 11th, 2006 at 07:56:38 PM EST
... The board of UnitedHealth Group Inc. met on May 1
to deal with questions about unusually well-timed
stock-option grants to top executives such as Chief
Executive William McGuire. The gathering heard a
briefing from a lawyer who was running UnitedHealth's
internal probe of how the options were dated.
One director whose recollections would be important to
the investigation was THOMAS H. KEAN, a former New
Jersey governor who had served on the compensation
committee that approved options grants.
The same day as the board meeting, some UnitedHealth
directors and executives were supporting a campaign by
Mr. Kean's son for a U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey.
Some of them attended a fund-raiser for Tom Kean Jr.
that day, in UnitedHealth's home state of Minnesota.
It isn't clear whether Dr. McGuire and his wife
attended, but each donated $2,000 to the cause. So did
Richard T. Burke, who sits on a special board
committee that is overseeing the options
investigation. All told, UnitedHealth-affiliated
donors have contributed $25,000 to the campaign.
[...]
When the donations to the Kean Senate campaign were
described to former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, he said
they struck him as "ill-advised and strange" and
something that could be seen as an attempt to
influence a witness because of the senior Mr. Kean's
role on the compensation committee. A spokeswoman for
the Kean campaign said the fund raising came at a
"UnitedHealth breakfast" hosted by Minnesota
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, and there was absolutely
no effort to curry favor with the elder Mr. Kean. The
former New Jersey governor didn't return calls seeking comment.