as the ruthless mastermind of an $US11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard.
Mr Lynch, a co-founder of Autonomy and once hailed as an example of British ingenuity, is facing 16 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy that could send him to prison for more than 20 years if a jury convicts him of all charges. The trial in San Francisco federal court is scheduled to last two to three months.
Things were so bad, Mr Weingarten told the jury, that Mr Apotheker had likened HP to a “burning platform” in the ocean. Meanwhile, Ms Whitman, he said, had praised Autonomy’s products as “magical software”.
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