Is the H-P Spying Scandal Another Enron?
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Politicians in Washington seem to think so, as they made very clear at Thursday's congressional hearing, where many witnesses either took the fifth or denied any personal wrongdoing
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By Paul Elias Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- The one winner in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal that has enthralled Silicon Valley appears to be Mark Hurd.
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HOUSTON Enron&#39;s prized remaining assets _ its domestic natural gas pipelines _ will be on the auction block tomorrow. Houston-based Enron filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection after its stock collapsed in 2001.
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In the weeks before Enron&#39;s December 2001 bankruptcy, H&amp;R Block Financial Advisors fraudulently peddled the energy company&#39;s soon-to-be-worthless bonds to unsuspecting customers, securities regulators alleged Monday.
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By PAUL ELIAS   Associated Press writer  SAN FRANCISCO -- The one winner in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal that has enthralled Silicon Valley appears to be Mark Hurd.
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Few corporations deserve to be equated to Richard Nixon's White House or Enron, but Hewlett-Packard seems richly entitled to that comparison. And unlike those two arch-villains, HP awaits your judgment the next time you walk into any computer or electronics store. What do you do?
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Pressure is mounting on H.P.Âs chief to explain his role in the companyÂs spying operation after his name figured in new documents in the investigation.
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The first criminal trial involving former Enron staff is &quot;a case about cheating and lying&quot;, prosecutors say. Two Enron employees and four Merrill Lynch executives face charges relating to a transaction in Nigeria in 1999.
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By Damon Darlin and Matt Richtel  John Markoff contributed reporting.  *  Pressure is mounting on the Hewlett-Packard chief executive, Mark Hurd, to explain what appears to have been a greater role in the company's spying operation than was initially indicated.
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(InfoWorld) - Like a good friend who has just gotten out of a terrible relationship, Hewlett-Packard seemed to be on the rebound and all the happier for it in recent months. After the departure of controversial CEO Carly Fiorina, the company has as of late shown newfound confidence and focus under new CEO Mark Hurd. But allâs still not well in the higher echelons of HP, as revealed in a filing the company made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sudden and unexpected resignation of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Thomas Perkins from HPâs board of directors in May turned into a full-blown scandal last week, spawning law enforcement and SEC investigations and a PR nightmare for HP. At the center of the controversy is a legally and ethically questionable internal investigation of leaks of confidential company information to the media dating back to 2005. According to a copy of a letter from Perkins to the HP board explaining his sudden resignation, and republished on thesmokinggun.comâs Web site (a sure sign, if ever there was one, that youâre in the PR doghouse), HP hired outside companies to obtain personal phone records of board members using âpretextingâ (thatâs âsocial engineeringâ to you and me), in which a private investigator impersonated board members to obtain details of private phone company billing statements. In his letter, Perkins says he has proof that his own phone records were âhackedâ in the investigation. Those investigations ultimately fingered George Keyworth, an HP director since 1986, as the source of information about board deliberations and other confidential information, which were leaked to the media without authorization. Keyworth acknowledged he had leaked information at a board meeting on May 18 but refused the boardâs request to step down. Perkins announced his own resignation at that meeting, citing âpersonal frustrationâ with board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the handling of the leak investigation. In the meantime, the dispute has spilled over into the public domain. The attorney general of California asked HP to supply information about the leak investigation. The SEC has also been in touch over the 8-K filing HP made when Perkins resigned. HP believes its disclosures in May were âaccurate and complete.â In an Aug. 31 meeting, HPâs board of directors determined that Keyworth shouldnât be nominated for another term on the board.
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Hewlett-Packard is not the only company diving into the murky world of private investigators and secret surveillance.
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HOUSTON -- It was one of the more spectacular corporate bankruptcies ever: Enron Corp. , once the seventh-largest company in the country, felled by intricate and illegal accounting tricks.
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HOUSTON, Texas - Federal authorities are investigating whether former Enron Chairman Ken Lay&#39;s wife acted improperly when she had their family foundation sell large quantities of Enron stock just days before the company&#39;s bankruptcy.
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After five years of stepped-up post-Enron-WorldCom oversight, are we in the midst of a regulatory retreat?
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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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HOUSTON, Texas - Enron former chief executive Andrew Fastow has been named as the mastermind of a bogus deal with Merrill Lynch designed solely to curry favour with his boss.
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Inky upside to murky mess The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) doesn't want to be left out of the Big Dig into HP's spy operations. The agency has broadened its probe of the company, asking for records tied to the resignation of board member Tom Perkins and documents related to HP's already infamous mole hunt.â¦