'Crimes Committed' in HP Scandal
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COMPUTER giant Hewlett-Packard's woes have escalated dramatically, with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer warning he has evidence to start indicting employees in the growing boardroom leaks scandal.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  on  Thursday admitted that private investigators hired by its board  had acquired the phone records of several journalists in an  attempt to find a suspected boardroom leaker, the Financial  Times reported on Friday.
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(InfoWorld) - 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. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee issued subpoenas Wednesday for five people identified as "pretexters," data brokers who sometimes obtain access to confidential records under false pretenses. HP has been embroiled in a scandal over its hiring of private investigators who engaged in possibly illegal pretexting to investigate news leaks from HP's board to reporters. Served with subpoenas, according to the Subcommittee, are: Bryan Wagner, a private investigator from Littleton, Colorado; Charles Kelly, of the CAS Agency in Villa Rica, Georgia; Cassandra Selvage of Eye in the Sky Investigations, of Dade City, Florida; Darren Brost, of Austin, Texas; and Valerie Preston from InSearchOf Inc., of Cooper City, Florida. Wagner was identified in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal article as a suspect in the pretexting of phone records of HP directors, employees and journalists who cover the Palo Alto, California technology company. The Journal reported that Wagner told an investigator that he smashed his computer to pieces with a hammer, destroying data that was saved on it. The article also said that the destruction of the computer may hamper an investigation by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office into possible illegal activity by people at HP or by the private investigators HP hired. The five who were subpoenaed Wednesday have been added to a list of witnesses that also includes HP's Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd and former board chairman Patricia Dunn, who resigned last Friday because of the scandal. While Dunn and Hurd have volunteered to appear, two other HP executives involved in the investigation were subpoenaed: senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and Global Security Manager Anthony Gentilucci. Hunsaker "left the company" and Gentilucci "resigned" effective Tuesday, said HP spokesman Ryan Donovan. Also subpoenaed are Ron DeLia, operator of Security Outsourcing Solutions Inc., a Needham, Massachusetts, private investigations firm, and Joe Depante, owner of Action Research Group, of Melbourne, Florida. HP has acknowledged hiring both those firms in its leak investigation and that they used pretexting to track down personal phone records. Â
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Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer, and three outside investigators wereÂ charged Wednesday in CaliforniaÂ on felony charges related to the conduct of an investigationÂ to track down news leaks from the HP board that allegedly broke state law.
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Saying "those who crossed the legal line must be held accountable," California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Patricia Dunn, a former HP legal counsel and three private investigators involved in the company's boardroom leak probe.
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The Hewlett-Packard Co. spying effort that has sparked criminal investigations was wide ranging and included physical surveillance, photographs and spyware sent via e-mail, and it also targeted wives and other relatives of HP board members and reporters, according to a consultant's report prepared...
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The Justice Department has launched a probe into Hewlett-Packard's methods to uncover the source of press leaks, the company has disclosed. The state of California and the House Commerce Committee are also investigating, it said.
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By Jordan Robertson  California's attorney general said Tuesday that Hewlett-Packard insiders are likely to face criminal charges, putting a damper on the news HP was reshuffling its board because of the scandal surrounding its efforts to root out media leaks.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif  - California's attorney general on Wednesday sought felony indictments against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Patricia Dunn and four others in a leak scandal that involved spying on board members and journalists.
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California Attorney General Bill   Lockyer said his office has enough evidence to obtain   indictments of people within Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N and of   hired contractors, after the company disclosed questionable   tactics in a boardroom leak investigation.
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California's attorney general  filed a criminal complaint on Wednesday seeking indictments of  former Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chairman Patricia Dunn and  four others for their roles in a probe into board leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday said a Needham private investigator assured the computer maker its investigative methods were legal, then apparently used ``pretexting," or lying, to obtain phone and fax records of 18 company board members, employees, and journalists.
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Hewlett-Packard staff could be indicted over the firm's probe into media leaks, California's attorney general says.
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Request comes as criminal charges still hang over the head of former HP chairman and others in connection with spying campaign.
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By Pete Carey, MEDIA NEWS  California's attorney general said today his office has enough evidence in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak scandal to indict people inside the company on criminal charges.
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UPDATED Two former Hewlett-Packard executives, plus three others outside of the company were indicted with in California late Wednesday on four felony charges. Those named in the indictments include former chairwoman Patricia Dunn.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina's account of how she tried to plug boardroom leaks in 2005 is likely to attract the interest of prosecutors in view of HP's current scandal, but the tactics she outlined appear legal, lawyers say.