Sunrise Senior Corp. might have failed to dosclose that it "backdated" stock option awards to executives, allowing them to pocket $34,000,000 at the expense of investors.

Investigation and pending securities fraud class action against Sunrise Senior Corp. on behalf of all security holders of Sunrise Senior between February 26, 2004 and July 28, 2006.

The class action complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Sunrise Senior issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the Sunrise Senior's business, its stock option plans, its compensation practices and its financial results.

As a result of these false statements, Sunrise's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period, reaching a high of $39.68 per share on March 29, 2006. The individual defendants took advantage of Sunrise's falsified financial results, the artificial inflation of Sunrise's stock and the manipulation of its stock option plans by selling shares of their Sunrise stock for illegal insider trading proceeds of over $34 million, while Sunrise's top officers pocketed millions more in unjustified bonus payments enhanced in part by Sunrise's falsified profits.

The complaint alleges that Sunrise Senior had previously manipulated the Company's stock option plans so as to enrich themselves by "backdating" or "spring-loading" the stock options they were granted. The complaint further alleges that on May 9, 2006, Sunrise disclosed a delay in reporting its first quarter 2006 results to allow a review of its financial statements, and on July 31, 2006, Sunrise revealed it would be forced to restate its financial statements going back several years - at least to 1999 - and that its prior financial statements could no longer be relied upon. Sunrise also admitted it could not file current period financial statements for the first, second and third quarters of 2006 and that when it restated its financial results, at least $100 million of previously reported profits from its joint ventures and real estate sales would be eliminated. As these revelations unfolded, Sunrise's stock fell from $39.62 on May 8, 2006 to as low as $24.40 on July 31, 2006.