The legal department at Hewlett-Packard Company is scrambling to deal with the tumultuous departure of chairman, CEO, and president Mark Hurd, his decision to join Oracle Corporation as copresident, and the resulting lawsuit by HP against Hurd for breach of contract. But the past is still painted on the company like an old advertisement on a brick wall.
A federal grand jury continues its four-year-long investigation into the pretexting scandal that enveloped HP in 2006. “It’s hard to believe that executives haven’t been indicted yet, given the information the House oversight and investigations subcommittee developed four years ago,” says Mark Paoletta, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro who served as chief counsel to the congressional panel during the HP investigation.
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