Silly Us! Exxon May Have "Accidently" Erased 7 Years Of Tillerson's "Wayne Tracker" Emails

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Up to seven years of emails that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson wrote under the alias "Wayne Tracker" may have been erased, a company witness has told investigators for the New York attorney general. The gap is far longer than the three months Exxon initially reported. The disclosure came from Connie Feinstein, Exxon's information technology security and consulting manager, who was questioned about Tillerson's secret email alias, created in 2007 under the pseudonym "Wayne Tracker."

During a daylong question-and-answer session related to the attorney general's investigation into whether Exxon mislead investors about climate change, Feinstein explained under oath both how a computer program allowed for the scrubbing of Tillerson's Wayne Tracker emails and the considerable effort the company put in trying to recover them.

A 301-page transcript of the April interview became public last week as part of a batch of documents released by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office. He lodged them in a state court in support of his claim that Exxon's climate accounting was a "sham" under Tillerson, who is now the U.S. secretary of state. Feinstein said that a program designed to automatically erase emails from the account's queues after 13 months had never been disabled on the Wayne Tracker account. That opened the possibility that an unknown number of emails may have been erased as far back as 2007.

The Wayne Tracker account was set up without a direct link to Tillerson on Exxon's email servers, giving him a layer of anonymity where he and top executives could address the company's most sensitive business matters, Feinstein said.

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