ETHICS- More on the HP SCANDAL
HP Scandal: Dunn, 4 Others Charged in Calif.
Ousted Hewlett-Packard (HP) Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer and three outside investigators were charged Wednesday in California with committing felonies when they conducted an investigation to track down news leaks from the HP board.
Patricia Dunn California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office said charges have also been filed against Kevin Hunsaker, a former senior lawyer at HP; Ronald L. DeLia, a Boston-area private detective; Matthew DePante, manager of Action Research Group, a Melbourne, Fla., information broker; and Bryan Wagner, a Littleton, Colo., man who is said to have obtained private phone records while working for Action Research. The charges were announced at a press conference held Wednesday at the California Department of Justice.
The charges include using false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes. All of the charges are felonies.
"One of our state’s most venerable corporate institutions lost its way as its board sought to find out who leaked confidential information to the press," Lockyer said in a statement. "In this misguided effort, people inside and outside of HP violated privacy rights and broke state law."
Lockyer’s office has been investigating the spying allegations because HP is based in Palo Alto, Calif. The charges were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco and the FBI have been conducting separate investigations of HP.
In a statement released after the filing, Dunn’s attorney, James Brosnahan, said his client will fight the charges.
full story here: http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25536
Ousted Hewlett-Packard (HP) Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer and three outside investigators were charged Wednesday in California with committing felonies when they conducted an investigation to track down news leaks from the HP board.
Patricia Dunn California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office said charges have also been filed against Kevin Hunsaker, a former senior lawyer at HP; Ronald L. DeLia, a Boston-area private detective; Matthew DePante, manager of Action Research Group, a Melbourne, Fla., information broker; and Bryan Wagner, a Littleton, Colo., man who is said to have obtained private phone records while working for Action Research. The charges were announced at a press conference held Wednesday at the California Department of Justice.
The charges include using false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes. All of the charges are felonies.
"One of our state’s most venerable corporate institutions lost its way as its board sought to find out who leaked confidential information to the press," Lockyer said in a statement. "In this misguided effort, people inside and outside of HP violated privacy rights and broke state law."
Lockyer’s office has been investigating the spying allegations because HP is based in Palo Alto, Calif. The charges were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco and the FBI have been conducting separate investigations of HP.
In a statement released after the filing, Dunn’s attorney, James Brosnahan, said his client will fight the charges.
full story here: http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25536
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