She received legal advice from Baskins and Hunsaker on the legality of pretexting that proved disastrous.

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Those who supervised the leak investigation Ann Baskins, Kevin Hunsaker, and Anthony Gentilucci have resigned from the company.

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"What worries people is that there is very little transparency, " says Bill Hunsaker of ING Barings in Seoul.

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Hunsaker and his team of investigators created a fictitious disgruntled employee named Jacob to make e-mail contact with Kawamoto.

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With Hunsaker in day-to-day charge, the investigators undertook their mission with extraordinary zeal.

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They had received a preliminary report from Hunsaker identifying Keyworth as the leaker.

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"Kim Jin Man is trying hard, but I can't be sure about the bank's prospects, " says Brian Hunsaker of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

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In contrast to the almost casual way that Kona I had been pursued, this time Hunsaker reported progress to Dunn and Baskins on Friday afternoons.

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Hunsaker did ask Gentilucci to get in touch with outside counsel.

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Two former police officers who worked for Hewlett-Packard security, Fred Adler and Vince Nye, questioned the legality of the method, according to notes of a later interview with Hunsaker.

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But the same could be said, even more emphatically, of others connected to the investiga-tion: Hunsaker and Baskins, certainly both of them lawyers but also Mark Hurd, who as chief executive was privy to both Kona I and Kona II, attended an early meeting at which phone records were discussed, and was briefed on their progress.

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