Mike Lynch Jury Told of Staff Fired After Raising Red Flags
- UK tech mogul is on trial over $11 billion 2011 deal with HP
- Lynch has argued he’s been scapegoated for disastrous takeover
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A former employee of UK tech mogul Mike Lynch’s Autonomy Corp. told jurors at his US criminal trial that she and one of her higher-ups were both fired after flagging concerns about accounting irregularities.
US prosecutors have argued Lynch was a domineering boss and was vindictive toward whistleblowers who openly challenged the accounting tricks that the government says allowed him to pull off a “massive fraud” when he sold his software startup to Hewlett Packard Co. for $11 billion in 2011.