Charges filed in HP spying scandal

California's attorney general today filed criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal...

Along with Dunn, former HP ethics officer Kevin Hunsucker was, as well as two outside private detectives and an information broker. CEO Mark Hurd was not charged. Sam Buell teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis. He says prosecutors will have to prove that Dunn knew investigators were breaking the law.

SAM BUELL: And she was quite clear in her testimony that she did not believe that there were any deceptive or dishonest means used to obtain this information. So, either the California attorney general is misreading the law, or there's some evidence that she did know.

In which case, Buell says, Dunn will have bigger problems -- if it turns out she gave false testimony to Congress.

•	Charges filed in HP spying scandal NPR Marketplace, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006 Byline: Amy Scott