Bryan Wagner (right) enters the courthouse with his attorney
San Francisco Chronicle – Saturday, January 13, 2007:
A private investigator from Colorado pleaded guilty Friday to federal conspiracy and identity-theft charges, resulting in the first conviction in the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal.
Bryan Wagner’s guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel was part of an agreement with prosecutors in which he agreed to cooperate in the investigation of the spying case in exchange for possibly getting a more-lenient sentence.
His conviction raises the question of who else is in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors in the scandal that wreaked havoc on HP’s reputation and drew national attention to the issue of pretexting, the use of false identities to obtain private information.
I hope they go after the whole board. If nothing else, a felony conviction would keep them from screwing up other companies.
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Agreed. Corporations and their henchmen should be accountable.
Patty Dunn is still wondering why people are ‘picking on me’ I suspect. It isn’t the Bryan Wagners who don’t grasp they are capable of doing wrong.
If they made a deal with this guy, the prosecutors definitely have their sights set on someone higher in the pecking order. Patty Dunn is probably right to fear she’s a target.