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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article140201238.html
March 22, 2017 6:40 PM
Exxon lost a years worth of Tillerson emails from alias account, company says
Emails from an alias account of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former Exxon Mobile CEO, are lost, the company says. MIKE STONE AP
By Teresa Welsh
Exxon Mobile cant locate a years worth of emails from an alias account used by former CEO Rex Tillerson, now the secretary of state.
In Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, the companys lawyers said the emails disappeared due to computer issues. The correspondence was sent between 2008 and 2015 under the name Wayne Tracker. Tillersons middle name is Wayne and he used the account to communicate more easily with others in the company on a broad range of business-related topics.
The judge ordered Exxon to work with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to find the emails, which were subpoenaed as part of an investigation into whether the oil and gas giant purposefully misled the public and investors about the impact of climate change.
Schneidermans investigation began in November 2015, long before Tillerson was tapped to serve in President Donald Trumps Cabinet. Last October, the New York Supreme Court ordered Exxon to produce documents related to its knowledge on climate change, dating back as long as 40 years ago.
Tillerson said in 2010 congressional testimony that Exxon knew human greenhouse gas emissions were impacting the climate, but it hadnt been determined to what extent and therefore what can you do about it. Exxon accused Schneiderman of conducting the investigation because of a political agenda.
The investigation uncovered the alias email account earlier this month, the existence of which Exxon had not previously disclosed.
In court Wednesday, Judge Barry Ostrager demanded Exxon deliver sworn statements from staff associated with the Wayne Tracker account to help state investigators determine how they disappeared. He said the documents must be delivered by March 31.
That material, if found, would join some 416,000 documents already produced by Exxon in the investigation. The companys lawyers said in a court filing that it has found nine months worth of lost emails, dated September 5, 2014 through September 15, 2015.
As secretary of state, Tillerson could be involved with abandoning the Paris climate agreement reached by the Obama administration in 2015. Trump has indicated he would like to see the U.S. withdraw from the international agreement aimed at reducing the global impact of climate change.
Mr. Ected
(9,673 posts)Amazing how much projection these guys do.
The crimes of Team Trump are a mirror reflection of the crimes they falsely invoked upon HRC.
Time to bring them all to their knees.
spanone
(135,900 posts)crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)I've got a nice bridge in San Francisco you might be interested in.
Just out of interest, did they only lose Tillerson's emails or did they only lose everybody's?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)spare us the lame republican lies puhlease
LAS14
(13,783 posts)..Benghazi stories from the campaign days?
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)I thought there was something like e mails can never be lost can't they still be retrieved after deletion.