{"id":11529,"date":"2010-04-15T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:15:51","slug":"what-did-carly-fiorina-know-and-when-did-she-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/15\/what-did-carly-fiorina-know-and-when-did-she-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Carly Fiorina Know and When Did She Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian and German authorities are investigating whether Hewlett-Packard executives used bribery<\/a> to seal a deal for computer equipment in Russia at the beginning of the last decade – when Carly Fiorina, Republican candidate for the US Senate, was CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

German prosecutors are looking into the possibility that H-P executives paid about \u20ac8 million ($10.9 million) in bribes to win a \u20ac35 million contract under which the U.S. company sold computer gear, through a German subsidiary, to the office of the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation. The office handles criminal prosecutions in Russia, including many corruption cases.<\/p>\n

Russian investigators raided H-P’s Moscow offices Wednesday in connection with the probe, the people familiar with the matter said. The search was requested by German authorities, according to a statement posted on the Russian prosecutor’s Web site.<\/p>\n

In December, German authorities arrested three suspects, including one current H-P executive and two former company officials, in connection with the case, according to court records. None of the three has been formally charged and all have since been released on bail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of this raises the obvious question: what did Carly Fiorina know about the Russian contract, and when did she know it? As CEO when the contract was won in 2000<\/a>, Fiorina would plausibly have had knowledge of what was done under her tenure to win that contract. After all, the CEO of the company is ultimately responsible for what happens.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time Fiorina and H-P have been criticized over possible misdeeds in foreign countries. There have been persistent questions about H-P’s business associations with Iran<\/a> during Fiorina’s tenure.<\/p>\n

Bribery and subverting sanctions are serious allegations, and Fiorina needs to answer them openly and honestly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian and German authorities are investigating whether Hewlett-Packard executives used bribery<\/a> to seal a deal for computer equipment in Russia at the beginning of the last decade – when Carly Fiorina, Republican candidate for the US Senate, was CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

German prosecutors are looking into the possibility that H-P executives paid about \u20ac8 million ($10.9 million) in bribes to win a \u20ac35 million contract under which the U.S. company sold computer gear, through a German subsidiary, to the office of the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation. The office handles criminal prosecutions in Russia, including many corruption cases.<\/p>\n

Russian investigators raided H-P’s Moscow offices Wednesday in connection with the probe, the people familiar with the matter said. The search was requested by German authorities, according to a statement posted on the Russian prosecutor’s Web site.<\/p>\n

In December, German authorities arrested three suspects, including one current H-P executive and two former company officials, in connection with the case, according to court records. None of the three has been formally charged and all have since been released on bail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of this raises the obvious question: what did Carly Fiorina know about the Russian contract, and when did she know it? As CEO when the contract was won in 2000<\/a>, Fiorina would plausibly have had knowledge of what was done under her tenure to win that contract. After all, the CEO of the company is ultimately responsible for what happens.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time Fiorina and H-P have been criticized over possible misdeeds in foreign countries. There have been persistent questions about H-P’s business associations with Iran<\/a> during Fiorina’s tenure.<\/p>\n

Bribery and subverting sanctions are serious allegations, and Fiorina needs to answer them openly and honestly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ZX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}