The stock-options backdating scandal just won't go away.

Apple Inc. shareholders last week filed a class action lawsuit charging former CFO Fred Anderson and other executives with intentionally filing false documents in an attempt to conceal stock option grants to executives. The suit came shortly after the Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly dropped its federal probe of Apple itself and its CEO, Steve Jobs. Neither the DOJ nor Apple would comment.

Also, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Microtune ex-CFO Nancy Richardson and other colleagues of civil fraud, days after the SEC settled an options backdating case with cable-chip maker Microtune itself. Richardson's attorney Susan Resley, said in a statement, that she will fight the charges, which seek financial penalties and other relief under the “clawback” provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to recover money executives wrongfully earned while misleading investors. “From the day Ms. Richardson walked into the job until the day she left, she lost money on the options the SEC alleges she backdated,” Resley said, adding that Richardson stopped the improper practice as soon as it came to her attention.