Feds charge investigator in HP spy case

One of the private investigators hired to ferret out the source of a news leak at Hewlett-Packard has been charged with federal identity theft and conspiracy.

Bryan Wagner is accused as masquerading as an unidentified journalist in order to obtain the reporter's private phone records, according to a copy of a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California.

Wagner, along with Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, and three others have already been charged in California with four felonies, including identity theft.

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