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Four people, including former Hewlett-Packard Board Member Patricia Dunn, appeared in a Santa Clara County (Calif.) Superior Court recently to face felony charges.
Dunn, one of the central figures in the company's scandal involving corporate spying, appeared on Oct. 5. Three private investigators – Ronald DeLia of Security Outsourcing Solutions, and Bryan Wagner and Matthew Depante, both of Action Research Group – appeared on Oct. 10.
All four, along with former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker, are charged with use of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes, according to court papers. Each was released with their arraignment date set for Nov. 17.
On Sept. 22, Dunn announced her resignation from the HP board. On Sept. 28, Dunn and Hurd appeared before a congressional committee in Washington, D.C., where they were questioned about their knowledge and roles in HP's investigation to uncover an internal media leak.
The company admitted in an Aug. 31 filing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that a data-gathering technique known as "pretexting" was used in their internal investigation. Pretexting is the basis of several of the charges Dunn and others now face in Superior Court.
