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Charges Against Dunn Dropped
SANTA CLARA, CA—Former Hewlett-Packard board Chair Patricia Dunn will avoid jail time and community service after a judge dropped fraud charges that had been leveled in the company’s boardroom spying scandal, the Associated Press reported. Dunn and three other defendants pled no contest to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire communications. Community service was waived because Dunn has cancer.