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A new shoe quietly dropped this week in the continuing saga of the HP Pretexting Investigation.
From today's San Jose Mercury:
"Hewlett-Packard, moving to repair damage caused by its discredited spy operation, has brought in a new executive to serve as an ethics adviser to Chief Executive Mark Hurd.
Attorney Jon Hoak was named vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, the Palo Alto computer and printer giant announced Thursday. Hoak previously was general counsel for more than a decade at NCR, working under Hurd who was CEO at NCR.
Hoak's title at HP represents an upgrade in the role of the ethics officer, an HP spokesman said. Previously, the top ethics official was Kevin Hunsaker, who had been director of ethics and played a central role in HP's controversial spying operation.
Hunsaker was fired from HP after its investigation into a breach of boardroom confidentiality -- and the tactics used by HP investigators -- erupted into a national scandal over privacy. After refusing to resign, Hunsaker was dismissed and faces criminal charges along with former HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and three outside contractors. He has maintained his innocence."
Now that Hurd has hired a new ethics officer i suppose life can go on at HP's headquarter's on Hanover Street in Palo Alto.On reading the story this morning my first reaction was to give thanks that HP had not hired former Nixon plumber, G. Gordon Liddy for the job, or my other dark horse candidate, PBS' ethics man about town Bill Moyers.
Well until defendants show up in federal court in northern California using briefcases to obscure their faces, i've said all I want to about the investigation.
Besides, I have something nice to say about HP in a later post.---Jim Forbes, on 10/13/2006 getting power tools put away and my tractor tarped before the Fall rains start.
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