Former Autonomy Exec Loses Bid to Knock Out Fraud Charges
Lawyers for former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain had argued the charges against him are an impermissible extraterritorial application of federal criminal law.
October 30, 2017 at 02:58 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has turned back a request from former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain to toss the criminal charges against him related to his role in the company's ill-fated 2011 sale to Hewlett-Packard.
Hussain's lawyers at Keker, Van Nest & Peters had argued the charges against him are an impermissible extraterritorial application of federal criminal law since the underlying transaction involved Autonomy, a London- and Cambridge-based software company, and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Dutch subsidiary.
But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California disagreed and on Oct. 27 issued a 16-page order allowing the case to proceed.
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