Calif. May Drop Charges Against Investigator in HP Scandal

States would be likely to abandon criminal prosecution of low-level investigation, the HP board of directors spy scandal, because he has pleaded guilty, for similar crimes in the United States federal court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Robert morgester, a Deputy Attorney-General said that the Santa Clara County Superior court hearing, his office probably would not oppose the motion of the Ministry of Defence, dismissed all allegations of countries Brian Wagner, the 29-year-old , Littleton, Colorado, the state prohibits a person from criminal prosecution if the person has admitted that the same act, in a federal case, morgester said.

However, morgester said that his office, Wagner also need to review the federal charges and the plea agreement, he admitted to confirm that the same criminal acts leading to the California Attorney-General to continue to the charges against him.

Wagners defence counsel, Stephen naratil, appeared in court last Wednesday to request a hearing of the matter. Judge for hearing on January 26.

In this country, Wagner and four others will each face four felony counts of identity theft, conspiracy and fraud, and for their role in allegedly HPs efforts to root out the source of the crash, the Board leaked to the media.

California attorney generals office raised these allegations, in October of Wagner, a former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, HPs former Chief Kevin hunsaker moral Edward Elijah, for a long time HP security contractor from the Boston area, Lien depante, an investigator from Florida.

But last week, federal prosecutors charged Wagner in San Jose federal court for the same offence, and he a plea agreement and agreed to testify for the prosecution.

No other person has been charged in the federal probe, but the U.S. Attorneys Office in San Francisco said the investigation is ongoing.

As part of the arrangement, Wagner guilty to two counts: conspiracy and identity theft. He acknowledged that the use of social security numbers on HP directors, journalists and their family members access the telephone companies to cough detailed telephone records, and conspiracy to distribute information to others involved in the probe.

At present, the state of Dunn hunsaker, Delia and depante appears to be moving forward. Their lawyers appeared in court last Wednesday, a judge ordered them to return on February 28 as scheduled preliminary hearing.