Ex-chairwoman Among 5 Charged in Hewlett Case
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The felony charges against Patricia C. Dunn and five others are the first by California prosecutors in connection with the companyÂs illegal spying operation.
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(InfoWorld) - Two key figures in theÂ Hewlett-Packard spying scandalÂ will give their sides of the story in interviews on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Patricia Dunn, former chairman of the technology company who was charged with four felonies in California, and Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer, president and chairman, gave separate interviews on the subject, according to information released by CBS Friday. In her interview, Dunn says companies conduct such investigations often. "Every company has investigations. Investigations, by their nature, are intrusive," Dunn tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl. "If you think that Hewlett-Packard is the only company that has an investigations force -- which by the way, is peopled mostly with former law enforcement officers that do all kinds of private detective work, monitoring, posing as other people in order to solve problems to protect shareholder value -- you're being naÃ¯ve." Dunn tells Stahl she is innocent of the charges she and four others connected to the case are facing: using false pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy. Four other people face the same charges. Dunn made a brief court appearance Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose and will return to court Nov. 17 for an arraignment. HP is based in Palo Alto, which is also in Santa Clara County. Fiorina was also interviewed by Stahl to promote her book about her HP days, "Tough Choices: A Memoir," which is to be released next week. Fiorina says she was "shocked" to discover the lengths to which investigators allegedly went to probe the source of HP leaks to the media, including the use of pretexting -- using false pretenses -- to gain access to phone records of people who were targets of the investigation. "Well, I mean, I was shocked to hear about the depth and the range of some of those tactics and -- and shocked to hear that I might have been the subject of some of them," Fiorina said. Documents released Wednesday by the California Attorney General's Office show that Fiorina's phone records were among those accessed by private investigators via pretexting. Dunn, who succeeded Fiorina as chairman after Fiorina's firing in March 2005, launched an investigation to find the source of leaks of board deliberations prior to Fiorina's firing. Dunn authorized a second probe in 2006 after a news report in January that quoted an anonymous source on HP's board. Fiorina says in the "60 Minutes" interview that she sought to find the source of news leaks when she was chairman, but that was limited compared to what has been alleged under Dunn's chairmanship. "I wouldn't call what I did when I was faced with a leak -- I wouldn't even call it an investigation. I would call it a series of conversations with people. The reality is I knew very well who had talked outside the boardroom. Only one of the people who talked outside of the boardroom confessed. But, I knew who had done it. They knew who -- they had done it and so did everyone else on the board," Fiorina says, according to a release from CBS News.
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The ousted chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard Co. told a House subcommittee today that some of the tactics used by the computer giant in its surveillance scandal are employed by other American companies.
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By From news reports  Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, resigned Friday, effective immediately, following the company's ill-fated investigation into media leaks, the company said.
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Patricia C. Dunn, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, and four other people will be named in indictments being filed by CaliforniaÂs attorney general today in the spying case at the company, according to lawyers involved in the case.
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Prosecutors in California filed criminal charges yesterday against former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others implicated in a corporate spying campaign, including a private investigator from Needham.
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Prosecutors filed a rape charge Wednesday against the ex-husband whose marriage was at the center of polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs' trial.
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By The Associated Press  Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors:  - Patricia Dunn, director since 1998, chairwoman since 2005. Will step down in January after orchestrating the internal investigation of media leaks that has prompted state and federal investigations.
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LONDON -- Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, charged with felonies for her role in the HP spying scandal and battling ovarian cancer, has stepped down from her position as non-executive vice chairwoman of Barclays Global Investors, the company said Friday.
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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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SACRAMENTO, Calif  - California's attorney general on Wednesday filed felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Patricia Dunn and four others for spying on journalists and the company's own board of directors and executives.
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PITTSBURGH -- A woman was arrested on weapons-related charges stemming from the shootings of five members of the Duquesne University basketball team, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
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Hunsaker also on list Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, and four others are to face charges over The great HP Pretexting Fiasco.â¦
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Patricia Dunn, the ex-Hewlett Packard boss facing criminal charges over corporate spying, appears in court.
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Five former employees of Dynegy Inc., El Paso Corp. and Reliant Energy Inc. were indicted on US charges of reporting bogus energy trades.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  PALO ALTO, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of the company's ill-fated investigation of boardroom media leaks.
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(InfoWorld) - Ousted Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer, and three outside investigators were charged Wednesday in California on felony charges related toÂ the conduct of an investigationÂ to track down news leaks from the HP board that allegedly broke state law. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office said charges have also been filed against Kevin Hunsaker, a former senior lawyer at HP; Ronald L. DeLia, a Boston-area private detective; Matthew DePante, manager of Action Research Group, a Melbourne, Florida, information broker; and Bryan Wagner, a Littleton, Colorado, man who is said to have obtained private phone records while working for Action Research. The charges were announced at a press conference held Wednesday at the California Department of Justice. The charges include using false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes. All of the charges are felonies. "One of our state's most venerable corporate institutions lost its way as its board sought to find out who leaked confidential information to the press," said LockyerÂ in a statement, released Wednesday. "In this misguided effort, people inside and outside of HP violated privacy rights and broke state law." Lockyer's office has been investigating the spying allegations because HP is based in Palo Alto, California. The charges were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been conducting separate investigations of HP. In a statement released after the filing, Dunn's attorney, James Brosnahan, said his client will fight the charges. "These charges are being brought against the wrong person at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons. They are the culmination of a well-financed and highly orchestrated disinformation campaign," Brosnahan said. He did not elaborate on his charge of a disinformation campaign. "As her many supporters fully expect, she will fight these charges with everything she has,â he said. In a statement released Wednesday in advance of the Sacramento press conference, HP said it was continuing to cooperate with state and federal investigators. The private investigators hired by HPÂ allegedly used "pretexting,"Â pretending to be someone they are not, to obtain the telephone records of HP directors, other employees and journalists who cover the company in an attempt to find out who from the board provided information to the reporters. The scandal has attracted the attention of the U.S. Congress.Â On Sept. 28, Dunn toldÂ the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that she believed employees and lawyers who said that the HP's leak investigation complied with the company's standards of conduct. The subcommittee was holding hearings into the use of pretexting. The committee passed a federal ban on pretexting but the Congress adjourned before the full House or the Senate voted on the legislation. When questioned about the techniques used to track down the leaks arose in the latter part of the investigation, Dunn said, she passed concerns to company Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd. Before then, the company's lawyers had assured her the techniques were being done "legally and properly," she said. "At no time in the investigation did I authorize its methods," Dunn said. "I asked this to be done in the HP standard way." On his part, Hurd told the subcommittee that he was not aware of the details of the techniques being used. He said he did not read a report from the investigating team that detailed the use of pretexting. Ann Baskins,Â who resignedÂ right before the subcommittee hearing as HP's senior vice president and general counsel, and Hunsaker both asserted their rights not to testify under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution during the hearing. Also taking the fifth before the subcommittee were Delia, Wagner, and Action Research owner Joe DePante. Dunn faces these criminal charges at a difficult time in her personal life. Dunn, is scheduled to begin chemotherapy Friday for a recurrence of advanced ovarian cancer, according to a Wednesday report in the San Jose Mercury News. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2004 and had been treated for breast cancer and melanoma dating back to 2001, the paper reported. (Stephen Lawson and Robert McMillan contributed to this story)Â  Â