GE Alleges Attorney Took Documents, Fed Them to Reporter

digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us RSS

Corporate Crime Reporter   |   July 24, 2008 05:10 PM



General Electric has charged a former in-house attorney, Adriana Koeck, with illegally taking privileged and confidential company documents and feeding them to a reporter.

The lawsuit was filed last month in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

GE is being represented by Charles Wayne of DLA Piper and Barbara Van Gelder of Morgan Lewis.

GE says that Koeck gave the documents to David Cay Johnston, who until he retired on April 11, was a reporter for the New York Times. He currently is writing for Tax Notes International.

Read the full story here

-OR-

Read more about General Electric in the news lately

General Electric has charged a former in-house attorney, Adriana Koeck, with illegally taking privileged and confidential company documents and feeding them to a reporter. The lawsuit was filed last ...
General Electric has charged a former in-house attorney, Adriana Koeck, with illegally taking privileged and confidential company documents and feeding them to a reporter. The lawsuit was filed last ...
 
Comments
1
Pending Comments
0
iPhone App Promo

Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to

View Comments:


This sounds like an important story but it's hard to figure out just what it is that GE is trying to cover up...
.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:35 PM on 07/25/2008
Comments are closed for this entry

You must be logged in to reply to this comment. Log in  or  Connect