A day after Hewlett - Packard ( HP ) chairwoman Patricia Dunn promised to pace down for her role in a spy scandal , the United States Department of State of California is bear on its effort to indict her and the individual investigators she used .
Dunn ’s actions were not merely unethical but actually breach the law , and the country now has enough grounds to indict people both within HP and contractors outside the company , according to Thomas Dressler , a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer .
In her seek to discover the root of press leaks about card slowness , HP has acknowledge that Dunn hired a private investigation firm to pose as the 10 suspect board extremity and journalists so as to convince the phone company to disclose individual headphone records . This is a practice bed as pretexting .
HP hired investigation firm Security Outsourcing Solutions ( SOS ) , which shares its Boston office staff with a law house telephone Bonner , Kiernan , Trebach and Crociata , according to a write up in The New York Times that summon source nigh to the case . The Times also said that the California and Massachusetts lawyer full general were working together on the case .
Dressler refuse to reassert the name of the certificate business firm HP hire , or whether California and Massachusetts are function together on the case .
“ I ’m not going to abnegate it , but beyond what the lawyer superior general enounce I ’m not go to comment . It ’s not prudent for public prosecutor to mention name before bring charges , ” Dressler say .
A call to SOS on Wednesday was answered by a cleaning lady who recited the name of the legal philosophy house , but denied the two business enterprise were connected . She declined to give her name , and said that no one was forthwith available for comment .
