House Panel and U.S. Attorney Join H.P. Inquiry
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Hewlett-Packard found itself under increased legal and political scrutiny over the use of private investigators to trace the source of news leaks in the board.
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A U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee probing theÂ Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) pretexting case has issued more subpoenas to compel witness testimony at a Thursday hearing.
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WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday he may hold hearings on how US and international gymnastic officials handled the case of Paul Hamm&#39;s Olympic gold medal.
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The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s internal probe of its boardroom spying has demanded that chief executive Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said yesterday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee looking into theÂ Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandalÂ has added a second day of hearings and issued subpoenas for some witnesses.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Patricia Dunn will answer questions on the spying scandal that has embroiled her company during a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill next week. HP's general counsel, Ann Baskins, will also appear at the hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, being held next Thursday, said HP spokesman Ryan Donovan. HP's lead outside counsel, Larry Sonsini of the Palo Alto law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, will also testify, according to Terry Lane, a committee spokesman. Sonsini advised HP on the legality of its investigation into media leaks of details from the company's board meetings between 2005 and 2006. Earlier this month, HP revealed it had hired outside investigators to find the leaker and that they had impersonated the subjects of their investigation in order to gain access to private telephone records. In the course of the search, HP board members and reporters were impersonated. The committee is looking into HP's methods and is considering new federal legislation that would make this practice, called 'pretexting,' illegal. HP is also being investigated by the Attorneys General of California and Massachusetts, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's office. Ronald DeLia of investigation firm Security Outsourcing Solutions is also set to appear, but Lane said it is possible he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right to not testify to protect against self-incrimination. Prosecutors reportedly are looking into DeLia's company and a Melbourne, Florida, investigation company, Action Research Group, in connection with the scandal. In a June 11 Congressional hearing on pretexting, several investigators invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions on the practice, which is considered to be in a legal gray area. The committee has also asked HP Global Security Manager Anthony Gentilucci and Action Research Group owner Joe Depante to testify, but has not heard back from them, Lane said. HP has already provided the committee with "thousands of pages of documents" in connection with its investigation, Lane said. The pretexting scandal has been front page news for several weeks now and has forced Dunn to step down from her chairman's role, effective January. But it has not had much of an effect on the company's financial performance. HP's (HPQ) stock has hovered in the $36 range since news of the affair first broke three weeks ago. HP Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi, who runs the company's printing business, downplayed the effect that the scandal was having on HP's management. "I think our focus is business," he said in response to a question on the matter at the Bank of America's Annual Investment Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. "We have a very solid team who is focusing on the business, focusing on the execution. At the end of the day, that is what we want to do." Â
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House ethics committee leaders said Monday they soon will present the panel with information on Majority Leader Tom DeLay's conduct and recommend whether to undertake a full investigation.
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Lawmakers charged with enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives met on Thursday to begin an investigation of a sex scandal that has ensnared top Republicans and could harm their chances of keeping control of Congress in the November 7 elections.
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The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe has demanded that CEO Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said Wednesday.
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Two Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N   officials were subpoenaed to testify at a House Energy and   Commerce subcommittee hearing Thursday on the company's probe   into leaks from its board, a source familiar with the   investigation said on Monday.
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HP says it will cooperate with a request from a U.S. House subcommittee questioning  why CEO Mark Hurd sold HP stock just before a boardroom spying scandal broke in September.
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A House committee gave a nod to directing the Attorney General's office to look into costs associated with illegal immigration that may be recovered from the federal government.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN FRANCISCO - The congressional panel investigating Hewlett-Packard Co.'s boardroom spying probe has demanded that CEO Mark Hurd explain $1.37 million worth of options he exercised just before the scandal became public, two congressmen said Wednesday.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Patricia Dunn will answer questions on the spying scandal that has embroiled her company during a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill next week.
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A watchdog group asked the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate whether a congressman broke the law by not paying taxes and using his office's resources for campaign activities.
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A House of Representatives panel on   Wednesday extended its probe into Hewlett-Packard Co.'s use of   private telephone records by subpoenaing five private   investigators to testify at a Thursday hearing.
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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and 18 other House Democrats on Tuesday asked the attorney general to replace a government prosecutor with an outside lawyer to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.