There’s electronic espionage afoot in Motorola’s headquarters.  According to court records recently released to the media, the company claim that their very-ex-Chief Financial Officer Paul Liska tried to blackmail them, concocting a scheme to look like a whistleblowing hero after being fired for gross incompetence.  Mr Liska states that this is a layer of lies designed to undermine his allegations that Motorola’s mobile division has been misreporting the hell out of their profits. He says that he brought his concerns over fraudulent reporting to the board of directors, who said “That’s very interesting, Mr Liska. Please explain it to Mr Bubba and Mr Muscles here as they show you exactly where the front door is – just don’t use big words because they taze people who do that.”

Whoever’s telling the truth (assuming anyone is at all, usually a mistake in multi-layer Mission Impossible intrigues), it’s a bad time for Motorola shareholders: either you have a criminally incompetent company, or they hire criminally incompetent staff – and the difference between the two only matters to them.