Bank of America and WikiLeaks
Circa 2010-2011, Hunton & Williams was allegedly referred to Bank of America (by the DOJ) for advice on how to deal with the upcoming wikileaks dump of the bank's internal documents. Hunton & Williams allegedly helped get three private companies, Berico Technologies, Palantir Technologies, and HBGary Federal to come up with a response plan. The plan was allegedly later revealed when Anonymous hacked into HBGary and dumped their internal documents on the web.
The plan created a controversy for many reasons, including the allegation that it included suggestions to harm the career of salon.com journalist and lawyer Glenn Greenwald and "disrupt" his support for Wikileaks. On 1 March 2011, 17 members of the United States congress called for a congressional investigation for possible violation of federal law by Hunton & Williams.
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