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Ex-Autonomy CFO: HP Trying To Hide Truth

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday August 5, 2014 @02:06AM from the bad-decisions dept.

jfruh (300774) writes The fallout from HP's Autonomy acquisition keeps getting more dramatic. Autonomy's ex-CFO is trying to block the settlement of lawsuits that arsoe the botched deal, claiming that HP is trying to hide its "own destruction of Autonomy's success after the acquisition." HP hit back, saying the ex-CFO "was one of the chief architects of the massive fraud on HP that precipitated this litigation."

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Re:Two things I'm certain of... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2014-08-05 03:00 · Score: 4, Informative

Don't you have to remain in the 'More Magic' quadrant if you don't want the system to crash?
Re:This is really egg on HP's face by Solandri · 2014-08-05 03:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Autonomy was audited by Deloitte. HP hired KPMG (who subcontracted Ernst & Young) to double-check Deloitte's audit. Those are three of the four biggest accounting firms in the world. All gave the green flag.