Ex-CEO Whitman Says Was Happy to Throw HP Predecessor 'Under the Bus' Over Autonomy Deal

    Meg Whitman, the above bang-up of Hewlett-Packard, said she was blessed to bandy her antecedent Leo Apotheker "under the bus" in a moment of acrimony over the adulterated accretion of British software aggregation Autonomy, London's Top Cloister heard on Wednesday.
The US controlling was giving affidavit in the $5 billion (roughly Rs. 35,000 crores) balloon of Mike Lynch, whom HP accuses, forth with his above aide Sushovan Hussain, of inflating the amount of the big abstracts close afore affairs it to HP in 2011 for $11.1 billion (roughly Rs. 77,000 crores).
Lynch has denied the allegations and said the abortion of the accretion was down to HP's corruption and carelessness of the aggregation during Whitman's tenure.
Apotheker, the artist of the deal, was accursed by HP's lath just weeks afterwards it was appear as allotment of a huge anarchy which aswell included the accessible auction of its PC business.
Whitman, a non-executive administrator on the board, said she had to be abiding to yield the job of CEO.
Little over a year later, afterwards burglary Lynch, Whitman had accounting down the amount of the accretion by $8.8 billion.
She said in an email anachronous Dec 14 2012 to HP's arch communications administrator Henry Gomez: "Happy to bandy Leo beneath the bus in a tit for tat" afterwards Apotheker had said the HP lath should allotment the accusation for the bootless deal.
Asked by Lynch's admonition Robert Miles whether she was just attention herself, Whitman said that was "absolutely not the case". "It was a moment of disappointment and anger," she said. "I shouldn't accept said it."
Miles said that was absolutely what she did to Lynch, a allegation she denied.
A agent for Apotheker said: "HP's accretion of Autonomy had the abounding abutment of the HP lath of directors, who accustomed it absolutely on the base of absolute due diligence.
"The actuality that every affiliate of the lath stood abaft the transaction at the time it was appear is bright from the affairs in the top court."

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