US natural gas exporter Venture Global LNG Inc. is facing lawsuits from former employees who say the company blocked them from exercising their stock options. The plaintiffs — ex-advisers Lee Muller and John Ruggirello, former general counsel Paul Dillbeck and Kathryn Lindquist, the widow of former company director Terry Newendorp — say Venture Global’s compensation committee has refused to let them cash in their 10-year options before they expire next year and hasn’t provided a reason for the denials. Both complaints were filed in early July in US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Muller is ... (full story)