October 4, 2006 9:57 AM PDT

Report: Five involved in HP pretexting case expected to be indicted

by Greg Sandoval
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Patricia Dunn, Hewlett-Packard's embattled former chairman and four others involved in spying on journalists HP employees and board members, will be indicted Wednesday by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, according to a published report.

The others expected to be indicted are Kevin T. Hunsaker, HP's former senior lawyer; Ronald DeLia, a private detective; Joseph DePante, owner of Action Research Group, a data-brokering company; and Bryan Wagner, a Colorado man believed to have been an employee of Action Research, according to a story in the New York Times.

The report says that the five will be accused of four felony charges: using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes, the Times reported.

Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. E-mail Greg, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sandoCNET.
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