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December 30th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda When Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard in August 2010, it was a shock to the PC industry. HP’s board forced Hurd out when he faced allegations of sexual harassment against employee and reality-TV star Jodie Fisher. The alleged activity was outlined in a letter from her attorney. While the case has been settled for a year and a half, the details of the letter were sealed — until now.
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The San Jose Mercury News reports a Delaware court ordered the letter be made public at the request of an HP shareholder, and it’s now online for all to see, minus a few sentences redacted to protect the privacy of Hurd’s family. (You can view the letter below.)
Written by “celebrity lawyer” Gloria Allred on behalf of Fisher, the letter is said to be filled with inaccuracies. That’s according to Fisher herself, who wrote Hurd after the case was settled, saying: “I do not believe that any of your behavior was detrimental to HP or in any way injured the company or its reputation.”
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Hurd, who is reported to have recruited Fisher as a marketing contractor for HP after seeing her on the reality show Age of Love, was accused of making unwanted advances toward her, including touching her breast when the pair were alone together in a hotel room and asking her to spend the night with him. Hurd is married with two daughters.
Besides the harassment allegations, the letter claims Hurd told Fisher about secret negotiations involving HP buying technology services company EDS for $13.9 billion. Federal regulators looked into the claim, though found no evidence that anyone used or profited from the information.
Although HP’s own investigation found no basis for the harassment claim, the board forced Hurd out and replaced him with Leo Apotheker. The choice would prove disastrous, as Apotheker set to remake the company as an enterprise services company and planned to gut HP’s consumer business — first by killing the TouchPad tablet and the webOS operating system, and then by selling or spinning off its PC division. The board fired Apotheker in September, replacing him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
After being forced to resign, Hurd was quickly snapped up by Oracle, who made him a president.
What do you think of the letter being made public? Is it important to HP’s shareholders to have this transparency, or should it have been kept sealed? Share your thoughts in the comments.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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