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RobertoOrtiz
09-13-2006, 12:35 PM
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"Hewlett-Packard shook up its board Tuesday to deal with a growing investigation of its own probe of boardroom leaks, but experts said the computer maker that helped make Silicon Valley into a world-class technology powerhouse has yet to put the scandal behind it.
HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is taking the fall for the boardroom scandal - she will leave her post after the company's Jan. 18 board meeting, the company said. She will be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd, who took that post 17 months ago and has helped the company win fans on Wall Street.

Dunn will stay on as a director and board member Richard Hackborn will serve as lead independent director starting in January, the company said.
In a related development, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said his office has enough evidence to obtain indictments of people within Hewlett-Packard Co. (Charts) and of hired contractors, after the company disclosed questionable tactics in a boardroom leak investigation."

>>LINK<< (http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/12/news/companies/hp_dunn/index.htm?postversion=2006091210)

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3DDave
09-13-2006, 03:43 PM
"The invasion of my privacy and that of others was ill-conceived and inconsistent with HP's values," Keyworth said in a statement. He also admitted to being the source of a company leak in January of this year.

Oh and leaking inside information is consistant with HP's values! Get a clue dude.
And if the leak was from an employee instead of a connected board member the justice system would be all over them instead of the leak investigators. Where were people like Dunn when Enron and Worldcom directors ripped their shareholders off.

Hipocracy I say!
noisewar
09-14-2006, 03:33 AM
"The invasion of my privacy and that of others was ill-conceived and inconsistent with HP's values," Keyworth said in a statement. He also admitted to being the source of a company leak in January of this year.

Oh and leaking inside information is consistant with HP's values! Get a clue dude.
And if the leak was from an employee instead of a connected board member the justice system would be all over them instead of the leak investigators. Where were people like Dunn when Enron and Worldcom directors ripped their shareholders off.

Hipocracy I say!

The heck are you saying? How does a leak justify extremely illegal means of rooting it out? Her actions are the kind of secret circle subterfuge that Enron directors used to set up its dummy corporations. I fail to see how blatantly invasive data-mining is equivalent to protecting shareholders.
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