Article: Charter seeks more than $4.3 million from ex-execs who pleaded guilty to fraud.

Byline: Jerri Stroud

Mar. 4--Charter Communications Inc. is seeking more than $4.3 million from four former executives, who pleaded guilty to fraud after a grand jury investigation of the company and its accounting practices.

In lawsuits filed last month, Charter seeks to recover legal fees and expenses advanced to the executives during the investigation, their indictments as well as related investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and class-action lawsuits by shareholders. Charter advanced the money on the condition that the executives believed their conduct wasn't illegal and that it was in the best interests of the company. The ...

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