Investigator's guilty plea could aid prosecution

A private investigator from Colorado pleaded guilty Friday to federal conspiracy and identity-theft charges, resulting in the first conviction in the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal.

Bryan Wagner's guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel was part of an agreement with prosecutors in which he agreed to cooperate in the investigation of the spying case in exchange for possibly getting a more-lenient sentence.

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