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Once again Jobs would end up suffering bad publicity without making a penny.
最終，喬布斯又一次在分文未得的情況下遭到了公眾的惡評。
Apple's stock price kept dropping, and by March 2003 even the new options were so low
蘋果股價持續下跌，到2003年3月，即使是新的期權都已經一錢不值，
that Jobs traded in all of them for an outright grant of $75 million worth of shares,
喬布斯不得不用這些期權換取了價值7500萬美元的直接股票激勵，
which amounted to about $8.3 million for each year he had worked since coming back in 1997 through the end of the vesting in 2006.
從他1997年返回公司直至2006年新期權授予完畢，這相當于他每年入賬830萬美元。
None of this would have mattered much if the Wall Street Journal had not run a powerful series in 2006 about backdated stock options.
如果《華爾街日報》沒有在2006年就期權的日期倒簽現象刊登那個影響巨大的系列報道，這一切本來算不了什么。
Apple wasn't mentioned, but its board appointed a committee of three members
報道中并沒有提到蘋果公司的名字，但蘋果的董蘋會委派了一個3人委員會
Al Gore, Eric Schmidt of Google, and Jerry York, formerly of IBM and Chrysler -- to investigate its own practices.
（阿爾·戈爾、谷歌的埃里克·施密特，以及曾在IBM和克萊斯勒任職的杰里·約克）對公司的內部行為展開了調查。
"We decided at the outset that if Steve was at fault we would let the chips fall where they may," Gore recalled.
“一開始我們就決定，如果史蒂夫確實負有責任，我們不會姑息遷就。”戈爾回憶說。
The committee uncovered some irregularities with Jobs's grants and those of other top officers,
委員會發現了喬布斯以及其他一些高管的期權激勵中的違規之處，
and it immediately turned the findings over to the SEC.
并立即向證券交易委員會遞交了調查結果。
Jobs was aware of the backdating, the report said, but he ended up not benefiting financially.
報告中說，喬布斯對日期倒簽行為是知情的，但他最終并沒有從中獲得經濟利益。
(A board committee at Disney also found that similar backdating had occurred at Pixar when Jobs was in charge.)
（迪士尼公司董事會的一個委員會也發現，皮克斯公司在喬布斯主政期間也曾有過類似的日期倒簽行為。）
