CA - A Melbourne (Florida) private investigator implicated in a spying scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. will avoid jail time after his lawyer tendered a "no contest" plea Wednesday to a misdemeanor charges in California.
Lawyers for the local investigator, Matthew DePante, manager of Action Research Group, and three other defendants in the case entered no contest pleas to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire communications in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
The judge dropped the charges against former Hewlett-Packard Co. board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who was accused of fraud in the company's boardroom spying scandal.
Like DePante, former Hewlett-Packard ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker and private investigator Ronald DeLia also will avoid jail time. (more)
Moral... Don't depend on the legal system to deter spies. Depend on your own proactive counterespionage efforts.
