Stray email from Tom Perkins shows enmity at HP
Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist and board member at HP who resigned from the HP board after finding out about “pretexting,” lost a few PR points when a stray email leaked to New York Times.
The email suggested Perkins relished a Newsweek piece written by a reporter cruising on Perkins’ own boat — he sent it on to some high-profile friends, including Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, and others. The Newsweek piece had included a description of a dinner stunt Perkins pulled on his HP nemesis, chairwoman Pat Dunn.
Bizarre story. First Perkins is spied on, lied to by pretexters, and now his email is being leaked.
Update: Corrected publication name to Newsweek.
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