Further proof that there are different rules for the .01% than for the rest of us:

Mark Hurd, former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, is accused in a letter made public on Thursday of using company funds to hire a former star of erotic thrillers as a contractor, and pressing her for sex during a two-year campaign of harassment. It is alleged he repeatedly invited her to spend the night with him and touched her inappropriately.

Hurd, who is married with two children, left the world’s largest maker of PCs under a cloud in August last year after an internal investigation found that irregularities in his expenses claims were used to cover up a “close personal relationship”. The investigation found there was no violation of HP’s sexual harassment policy.

— The Guardian

What would happen to you if you misappropriated company funds to engage in a “two-year campaign of harassment.” Do you suppose you’d get $12 million severance and then land a better job?

(I’d long suspected the whole thing was a set-up so that HP would dismiss him and he could take a better job at Oracle without walking away from his severance. That appears unlikely now, but perhaps his appalling behavior was not quite as reckless as it seemed.)