Lockyer warns of HP leak charges

[WhiteTara]

Wow the board gave her until January...I guess Lockyear thinks this is more serious than HP.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20060913&ID=6013865

Hewlett-Packard's attempts to put a quick end to the controversy over its boardroom leak investigation was dealt an immediate blow late on Tuesday by Bill Lockyer, California's attorney general, who said his office already has "sufficient evidence to indict people both within HP as well as contractors on the outside".

His comments came shortly after HP announced the January departure of chairman Patricia Dunn as it moved to restore the reputation of the venerable Silicon Valley company.

very short blurb

[Peace Patriot]

1. These L.A. Times and USA Today articles have a lot more info.:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hp13sep13,1,4618427.story?coll=la-headlines-business
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-09-08-hp-dunn-denies_x.htm

HP seems to have gone all to hell since they ousted the founding family members in that big fight a few years ago. The glitzy Carly Fiorina won that battle, and the "HP way"--an egalitarian atmosphere and profit-sharing that characterized the company in its early years--appeared to get sacrificed to the bottom-line and profiteering (the rich get richer). Then she was ousted by the current Board Chair Patricia C. Dunn, whom one of the board members has accused of breaking several laws against spying, trying to stem insider leaks (obtaining private phone records of board members and reporters, and doing so by impersonating them--although I haven't gone back far enough WHAT was leaked). No charges have been brought against her yet. The AG investigation is following the trail through HP's legal team and the outside investigators (hired to stem the leaks) who seem to have broken the law, the question being, on whose orders? It seems that Bush Junta ethics have come to Silicon Valley. Big money, big ethics problem--always seems to happen. When the people with the sharp, open-minded, creative edge--who are more interested in ideas and creative interaction--are pushed aside, and the people who see only Big Bucks take over, shit follows. In a country, or in a company.

[NVMojo]

2. business and government in America reflect each other

[Richard Steele]

3. Government in America -IS- business, and that's the problem.

We have replaced Democracy with CAPITALISM.
While it may be a fine economic system, it
is a piss-poor excuse for a system of GOVERNMENT.