HP Chairwoman Dunn Resigns Immediately
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 22--Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd said today the  company's chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, has resigned from the board of directors  effective immediately.
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(InfoWorld) - The attorney for ousted Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn fired back Wednesday at public comments made by board rival Thomas Perkins about theÂ HP pretexting scandal. "Mr. Perkins...has made the biggest mistake of his career. He is a bully, and he is bullying the wrong people," said James Brosnahan, attorney for Dunn, in a statement in response to what Brosnahan called a "gratuitous attack" on his client in a speech Perkins gave Tuesday in San Francisco. In an appearance at the VentureOne Outlook Conference, a gathering of venture capitalists, Perkins said the HP dispute about how to control leaks of board deliberations to the media was really a fight for control of the board, which Dunn won, according to media reports of his speech. Perkins also lamented that many corporate boards, including HP's, have turned from being "guidance" boards into "compliance" boards. Rather than advising the company on how to run its business as a "guidance" style director, "compliance" directors are increasingly focused on maintaining compliance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations governing publicly traded companies. He described Dunn as a compliance-style director, according to the reports. Dunn was indicted in October 2006 on four felony counts in California state court for authorizing an investigation into HP board member leaks to the media. Investigators hired by HP allegedly used false pretenses, or "pretexting," to get phone companies to divulge calling records for people they were investigating. A former legal counsel for HP and two private detectives hired by HP are also facing trial. The scandal broke in September 2006 because Perkins demanded the company publicly state, in an SEC filing, why he quit the board four months earlier. Because the state case is still awaiting trial, Dunn can't directly respond to Perkins' remarks, but her attorney had plenty to say. "Mr. Perkins generated an attack on Patricia Dunn, hired lawyers, hired a public relations firm, and all because his colleague on the Hewlett-Packard board [Jay Keyworth] was found to be leaking information. Now he is attempting to further prejudice the public against Patricia Dunn," Brosnahan wrote. Perkins quit the board when Keyworth was outed as the director who leaked information to the media. In his statement, Brosnahan said Perkins is likely to be called as a witness in Dunn's trial. He also accused Perkins of publicly criticizing Dunn to draw attention to Perkins' soon-to-be-published book, which is expected to touch on the pretexting scandal. A call to Perkins' office was not immediately returned.
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Patricia Dunn is out as Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman and another board member quits as the investigation into the company fraudulently obtaining personal phone records widens.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
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The chairman of Hewlett-Packard is stepping down amid controversy over a probe into leaks at the firm.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that Patricia Dunn, chairman of the board and director, has resigned, effective immediately.     Statement from the HP board of directors:  "Pattie Dunn has been a valuable director of HP for many years.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors adjourned an emergency phone conference yesterday without announcing a decision on the fate of embattled chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign or be fired for ordering an investigation that may have used illegal means to spy on colleagues and journalists.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd announced that Board Chairman Patricia Dunn has resigned from the board, effective immediately, in the wake of a boardroom leak scandal that has swept over the company.
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HPÂs chairwoman will step aside in January, the C.E.O. will succeed her and the longest-serving director resigned.
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By Rachel Konrad  Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.
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Patricia Dunn agreed to resign as Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman yesterday as a scandal widened over potentially illegal tactics used by outside investigators she hired to uncover the source of news leaks.
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Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn will remain in her post until January, when she will be succeeded by chief executive Mark Hurd, the computer maker said Tuesday.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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JUST IN At a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif. Friday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd addressed the issues surrounding the investigation into a boardroom leak, saying former chairwoman Patricia Dunn is fully resigning her post from the board. More coverage of this latest development coming shortly.
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Ann Baskins pleads the 5th to Congress and resigns a week after HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn
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By Jordan Robertson  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn took the fall Tuesday after admitting she authorized an investigation that relied on "inappropriate techniques" to uncover who was leaking boardroom secrets to the media.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman Patricia Dunn, charged Wednesday in connection with an internal leak probe at the computer maker, appeared in court yesterday in San Jose, Calif. , to face fraud and conspiracy charges.