CALIFORNIA INDICTS HP CHAIRWOMAN !

CALIF INDICTS FORMER HP CHARWOMAN DUNN
Dunn, Others Indicted in HP Spying Case
(Oct.06)
– California’s attorney general sought felony indictments Wednesday
against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four
others involved in the corporate spying scandal at the computer and
printer company.Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed criminal complaints
in Santa Clara County Superior Court naming Dunn, ousted HP chief
ethics officer Kevin Hunsaker, private investigator Ronald DeLia, and
outside investigators Joseph DePante of Melbourne, Fla. and Bryan
Wagner of Littleton, Colo.They each face four felony charges: use of
false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a
public utility; unauthorized access to computer data; identity theft;
and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes.HP CEO Mark Hurd is not
among those charged, nor was HP’s former General Counsel Ann Baskins,
who had some oversight of the company’s investigation of media
leaks.The scandal erupted last month when HP disclosed that detectives
it hired to root out a series of boardroom leaks secretly obtained
detailed phone logs of directors, employees and journalists. The
detectives used a potentially criminal form of subterfuge known as
pretexting to masquerade as their targets and trick telephone companies
into turning over the records.