Patricia Dunn , the former chairperson of Hewlett - Packard , pleaded not shamefaced Wednesday to four felony charge connect to the HP card spying scandal .
Dunn made a abbreviated appearance at the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose , Calif. , on charges that she grade an investigation to identify board members who may have leak out board deliberations to news media . harmonize to charges file by the California Attorney General ’s office , private investigators hired by HP used false pretenses to gain access to the telephone records of conductor , HP employees and journalists , which the state arrogate is illegal .
Dunn spoke only once during her five - arcminute visual aspect , answering “ Yes ” when Superior Court Judge Jerome Nadler asked if she forego her veracious to a preliminary hearing within 10 days . She was represent at the hearing by Somnath Raj Chatterjee , a collaborator at the San Francisco natural law firm Morrison & Foerster .
The charges against her let in using false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain secret entropy from a public utility , unlawful utilization of figurer datum , identity larceny and confederacy to place each of those crimes .
At her side in the court , and while walking through a crowd of reporters and photographers covering her every move , was her hubby , William Jahnke .
The same charges have also been lodge against Kevin Hunsaker , a former older attorney at HP , who plead not shamefaced at his arraignment Nov. 7 .
Also consign are Ronald L. DeLia , a Boston - area individual detective ; Matthew DePante , handler of Action Research Group , a Melbourne , Fla. , information factor ; and Bryan Wagner , a Littleton , Colo. , man who is say to have obtain private phone records while working for Action Research .
Attorneys will return to Superior Court Friday to discuss scheduling of succeeding hearings but Dunn and the other defendants are not required to appear .
