Judge blasts Cisco
By Techgirl

Even in today’s world, it is shocking at how a few rogue elements in even international technology companies like Cisco would do anything to harass ex employees.

Vancouver Sun is reporting how a Canadian Judge has stayed the extradition hearings of a respected ex CISCO manager because of abuse of process.  The Judge was angry at the way US Prosecutors deceived Canadian authorities to stall a civil case this ex Cisco employee had brought against the networking giant

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In a rare move, McKinnon stayed extradition proceedings against Peter Adekeye, a British computer entrepreneur who once worked for Cisco Systems, Inc.

The judge said U.S. prosecutors acted outrageously by having the respected executive bizarrely arrested in Vancouver on May 20, 2010 as he testified before a sitting of the American court he was accused of avoiding.

He called Adekeye’s ordeal something out of a novel by Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22.

The RCMP took Adekeye into custody as he was testifying before a special U.S. hearing at the Wedgewood Hotel about the very case that supposedly required his urgent extradition.

Adekeye was perp-walked through the hotel lobby to a waiting police wagon.

“This speaks volumes for Cisco’s duplicity,” the judge said, adding the company had “the unmitigated gall” to try to use the criminal process to humiliate and force Adekeye to abandon a civil suit.
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