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Posted on 09/08/2006 1:29:07 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Newsweek is reporting that HP has called an emergency board meeting. [Link]Read the reports on this fiasco whereby Chairwoman Patricia “Patty” Dunn is at the center of a spy case whereby reporters phone records were illegally obtained resulting in all sorts of legal and SEC violations and the sudden resignation of Tom Perkins as well as other issues. There is no way — after a corporate witch hunt that results in spying that targets a New York Times reporter, Fortune Magazine reporter, CNET reporters and others — that this woman stays in office.
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So should I dump my 26 shares?
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Too late. Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
If you have something better in mind and the commissions aren't bad, I'd say Yeah, dump 'em.
If not, keep holding 'em.
A 'Dunn' deal?
No KIDDING!!
Patty Dunn already knew this.
There is an old saying about fighting newspapers, "Becareful on picking fights with someone who buys their ink by the barrel."
Georgette Gekko needs Federal prosection. Make an example of her.
Why not make an example of the board member that leaked the information?
This is silly - she played hard ball - and the culprit was found out. Big deal
Ha ha!
Not all at once, please!
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP
SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn said Friday that several of her fellow board members want her to remain on the job despite a criminal investigation into her efforts to plug a media leak.
Dunn's crusade spawned a ruse to obtain the personal phone records of company directors and at least nine reporters. It put HP's board at the center of an imbroglio that threatens to distract the Palo Alto-based company as it tries to build on a recent run of success in the personal computer and other high-tech markets.
"I serve at the pleasure of the board," Dunn told The Associated Press in an interview. "I totally trust their judgment. If they think it would be better for me to step aside, I would do that. But a number of directors have urged me to hang in there."
Incensed by several media stories that quoted unnamed people about information shared during HP board meetings, Dunn authorized an investigation earlier this year to determine if any of the company's directors were talking out of turn.
The inquiry convinced HP that George Keyworth II had been providing reporters with confidential company information. The company is punishing him by preventing him from running for re-election to the board.
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Unfortunately, she played felony hard ball.
Ah, the Chair of Hewlett-Patel is going down? And she is a friend of Carly Fiorina? Too juicy.
"hard ball"? Does criminally posing as "justche" in order to obtain your SSN#, your cell phone records, your home phone records, and then widely disseminating this illegally-obtained information equal "hard ball"? So outright identity theft is merely "hard ball"?
She just needs to find the right job- like chairman of the CIA or NSA.
It's about time that HP's board forgot this PC crap and got a competent MAN in that job.
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