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<html><div style='background-color:'>UPDATE ON THE HP INVESTIGATION
SEPT. 16, 2006
PART 1 OF 2 PARTS
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"The New York Times
ZEROING IN ON SOURCES HP USED
By Damon Darlin and Matt Richtel
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15 - Prosecutors looking into the internal spying operation at Hewlett-Packard are beginning to link together a chain of investigators from a company down to the detective agencies that may have been involved in obtaining the phone records of its directors and a number of journalists.
According to people briefed on HP's review of its internal investigation, prosecutors are focusing on the role of the Action Research Group of Melbourne, Fla. Congressional investigators identified the company this year as one of the most prolific users of subterfuge for obtaining phone records, a method known as pretexting.
HP has said that it hired investigators who used such a technique in their search to identify a director who the company said was leaking information to the news media. California and federal prosecutors are investigating whether the internal investigation broke any laws, and the California attorney general has said indictments are likely.
An owner of the Action Research Group, Joseph DePante, when asked by telephone of Friday about the HP investigation, said: 'I don't know anything about that. Thank you for calling.' He refused to comment further.
Mr. DePante, 59, started his business in 1989 and is a licensed private investigator. The firm's Web site says it has databases of records that help collection agencies, lawyers and other private detectives collect debts. The site also advertises searches for criminal, financial and employment records. The company's manager, Matthew DePante, 27, is described as 'knowledgeable in all areas of telephone research.'
In addition to the Florida firm, prosecutors have been examining the role of Security Outsourcing Solutions, a tiny Boston-area private detective firm. The firm and its principal, Ronald R. DeLia, have ties to HP through the company's Global Investigations Unit, which is based in Massachusetts.
Anthony R. Gentilucci, manager of global investigations for HP, is president of the New England chapter of the High-Tech Crime Investigation Association, an organization of law enforcement officials, private detectives and corporate security officers. Two of the five other elected officers, Glenn Tandy and Kevin Mazza, also work for HP's security arm, and Mr. DeLia has been a member of the association.
John J. MacLean, a police detective in Medford, Mass., and the second vice president of the association, said Mr. DeLia attended meetings and had 'an impeccable reputation.' He said Mr. DeLia and Mr. Gentilucci knew each other, 'but how close they were, I don't know.'
Mr. DeLIa did not respond to e-mail and telephone messages requesting comment, and Mr. Gentilucci's office referred all inquiries to HP's headquarters.
The links between the two men were personal. Mr. Gentilucci and Mr. DeLia were fellow groomsmen in a 1997 wedding in Boston, according to a wedding announcement in The Boston Herald. One of the two best men in the wedding was John Kiernan, a partner in the law firm of Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata, which shares a Boston address and phone number with Security Outsourcing Solutions.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent a letter to Mr. DeLIa requesting that he testify at a subcommittee hearing on the HP matter on Sept. 28 in Washington. The subcommittee is expected to put Mr. Gentlucci on the witness stand as well, a committee staff member said. It has already requested the appearance of Patricia C. Dunn, HP's chairwoman; Larry W. Sonsini, HP's outside lawyer; and Ann Baskins, the company's general counsel.
The same panel, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, heald hearings this year on the use of fraud in obtaining phone records.'
END OF PART 1 OF 2 PARTS 
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From: John Young <..._at_pipeline.com> Reply-To: TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com To: TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com Subject: [TSCM-L] Re: Intrigue in High Places Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:06:16 -0700 > >Interesting backtracking to the lowest malefactor. Reminds of how >the Watergate break-in led to the fall of a treeful of arrogant assholes >who believed they were above the law, or at least discovery. Took a >couple of years of squeezing confessions out of squealers to pull >down the originators. > >Consider that this nefarious practice, nearly always involving former >or present intelligence, law enforcement and lawyers who learned >their tricks supposedly in the service of the public. And nearly all >of them were adept at professing heartfelt innocence, then well >what
happened may of skirted the law but was legal "at the time," >or well perhaps some of the bad guys went too far but we knew >nothing about it, or well our law firm took care of it and we were >assured all was in order, or well my law firm was certain the >practice was "legal at the time," or well an apology is in order >for what underlings did without our knowledge or approval, or >well we have to reluctantly admit that the treacherous underlings >taped our conversations but what we said was taken out of >context or misunderstood, or well a junior partner did it without >checking with the partner in charge, or well the partner in charge >has been fired, or well the law firm has been indicted, or well >the corporate or presidential counsel has been fired, or well >let me be clear, the stockholders interest was
paramount >and we won't do it again, or well I'm not a crook but I shall >resign. > >Meanwhile a treefull of mendacious culprits are serving >time -- or dead -- for believing they would be protected for > >earning a few bucks perpetrating crimes against the public >interest, the shareholder interest, their family's interest, >assuring a place in fuck-up perdition, muttering for eternity >why me, why not all those others who were doing the same. > >The lament of the spy, the lawman, the lawyer, the politician, >the ones who've always have a zillion excuses and apologies >and regrets when they get caught, the whining the same old >song as those who proudly proclaim they would never ever >do that -- get
caught. > > > > > > >
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