The California lawyer general has offered to throw away felony charges against the four remaining suspect tear in the Hewlett - Packard spying case if they plead guilty to one misdemeanour each , according to publish reports .
TheSan Jose Mercury Newsquoted anon. generator familiar with the case , while the Associated Press quoted Stephen Naratil , the lawyer for private researcher Bryan Wagner , who pleaded guilty on Jan. 12 in telephone exchange for an arrangement to collaborate with federal public prosecutor enquire the type . He faces sentencing June 20 on one count of cabal and one count of aggravate identity theft . Wagner is the only suspect who has so far been charged in federal royal court .
A spokesman for the attorney representing former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn decline to comment on the published report . Attorneys for former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker , could not be make for comment , but in the past tense they have betoken no interest in accepting a supplication understanding .
The four remain suspect are charged with fraudulent wire communications , wrongful use of computer data , identity theft , and conspiracy . Besides Dunn and Hunsaker , Ronald DeLia of Security Outsourcing Solutions in Boston , and Matthew DePante , manager of Action Research Group , in Melbourne , Fla. , face state charges .
In federal court last Friday , Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krotoski said that DePante hired Wagner , of Littleton , Colo. , and orchestrate him to use pretexting to get earphone book .
HP attain an agreement Dec. 8 , 2006 , with the office of then - Attorney General Bill Lockyer to settle potential civic charges in the case . HP agreed to pay $ 14.5 million , which will go into a state law enforcement fund to investigate cases of bodied privacy violation . Lockyer was elect land financial officer in the November election and former California Governor and Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown was elect lawyer superior general .
