State charges dropped in HP spy case
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A state judge in California on Thursday dismissed charges against the three remaining state criminal defendants in the Hewlett-Packard Co. spying case.
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By Michelle Kessler  SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard's snooping scandal has besmirched the company's reputation -- but many other things are going great for the computer giant, tech analysts say.
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard board members and journalists were under physical surveillance by investigators trying to find out who was providing information to reporters, and private investigators tried to put tracking software on a journalist's computer to keep tabs on e-mail, according to a New York Times report. Patricia Dunn, HP's chairman, the company's general counsel and a staff attorney oversaw the internalÂ investigation of news leaks, the Times reported, citing anonymous sources who have been briefed on HP's findings so far regarding the secret investigation. It isn't clear how much involvement in the investigation there was by Dunn and others at HP, the Times reported Monday. HP announced last week that Dunn willÂ step aside as chairmanÂ in January, although she will remain as a director. Two others also have resigned from the board in the wake of the scandal. Over the weekend, HP identified Michael Moeller, director of corporate media relations, as one of two HP employees who was targeted in the internal investigation. "Investigators' suspicions were misdirected and unfounded," Robert Sherbin, HP's vice president for external communications was quoted as telling the Times on Sunday. The internal investigation reportedly was conducted in two stages, with the first from January 2005 to August of that year, which came up with nothing to go on, and then a second phase beginning in January 2006 after the technology news site of CNET NetworksÂ posted an article about an HP senior management meeting held that month. The board first clamored for an investigation into leaks of information to journalists in January 2005 following an article in The Wall Street Journal that spoke of board discussions regarding management reorganization and changes in the responsibilities to be handled by Carly Fiorina, who was then chief executive officer and chairman. She was ousted by the board in February 2005. Within days of that board action, The New York Times published a detailed account of a directors' meeting that was crucial to her ouster. Reporters from the Times, the Journal, CNET and Business Week have been informed by the California attorney general's office that HP investigated them. California and federal authorities are investigating HP's conduct and the California attorney general has said that charges are likely. HP has admitted that its the private investigative firm it hired used "pretexting," with investigators pretending to be journalists in order to obtain their personal telephone records. Even after a summary of the internal investigation was presented to leaders at HP, in Palo Alto, California, those in charge were unaware that possibly illegal methods had been used to obtain information, the Times reported. In May, the investigation's findings were relayed to the board of directors, including the allegation that its longest-running member, George Keyworth, was the source of the leaks to journalists. He refused to resign, but Vice Chairman Thomas Perkins, an influential and important Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was incensed over the probe and quit the board. He then turned his attention to pressuring Dunn to resign. His surprising departure was announced in a mildly worded HP statement that offered no clue as to the fractious nature of what had transpired, details of which began to emerge in news accounts earlier this month.
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A couple accused of tying up their pregnant daughter and driving out of state in the hopes of forcing her to undergo an abortion will only face charges back home in Maine after prosecutors on Tuesday dropped their case in New Hampshire where they were arrested.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board will drop prominent Silicon Valley lawyer Larry Sonsini as its outside counsel, according to a report published Thursday, marking the latest fallout from a spying scandal that humiliated the computer and printer maker.
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By Ross Kerber and Sacha Pfeiffer, The Boston Globe  Sep. 14--California officials investigating the corporate spying issues  at Hewlett-Packard Co.
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The Suffolk County District Attorney announced on Wednesday that he was dropping the charges against Martin H. Tankleff for the 1988 murders of his parents.
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The state prosecutors office in Berlin  has dropped an investigation into a complaint filed by a  44-year-old woman who claims Paul McCartney is her father and  that the former Beatle manipulated a paternity test in 1984.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Military prosecutors agreed to drop an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his defense attorney said Wednesday.    Senior Airman Ahmad Al Halabi has pleaded guilty to four "minor infractions," his lawyer Donald Rehkopf Jr...
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The state of California has dropped a criminal investigation into the company that sold it electronic voting machines but instead will join an existing lawsuit charging that the company made
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 7--The California attorney general's office will announce this afternoon it has reached a civil settlement with Hewlett-Packard regarding the computing company's board-spying scandal, CNET News.com has reported.
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Federal prosecutors Friday dropped a charge that an alleged fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave material support to terrorists &#151; a move that stunned defense attorneys.
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InfoWorld - Charges have been dropped against a Russian school principal who faced up to five years in prison for software piracy, according to Russia&#39;s state news agency.
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California will drop charges against spy--because he faces federal court sanctions.
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The California Attorney General said late Tuesday that he had enough evidence to bring charges against some of those involved in the HP leak probe scandal, and that the indictments may not be limited to individuals within the company.