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Given that's black-letter illegal, I think that article isn't being quite accurate. You can have and create a document-deletion policy, no problem. But -- and
by danielweber 12y ago
Given that's black-letter illegal, I think that article isn't being quite accurate.
You can have and create a document-deletion policy, no problem. But -- and I've had this drilled into me at multiple employers, because it's really important -- once you are told by legal that an investigation is under way, you don't delete them, no matter what, until legal tells you otherwise. You take active steps to preserve them if need be.
Cuomo's optics suck, but unless you think he's criminally insane, he wouldn't delete emails while investigators wanted emails preserved. There's some part of the story we haven't heard.
- sukilot 12y agoWhen the penalty for destroying evidence is less than the penalty for what the evidence proves... Did you know that people flush drugs down the toilet when cops knock on the door, in clear violation of the law?
- danielweber 12y agoIANAL but last time I went through compliance training, it was suggested that I could be personally criminally liable if my boss tells me to delete emails that I know have a legal hold on them. I've also only seen this story in IBT, not elsewhere, and they carefully don't say that these records are part of the investigation, just that an investigation is happening and that emails are being deleted -- leaving it to the reader to connect the dots that don't necessarily exist.
- joezydeco 12y agoWhy would anyone want to delete emails, period? Anything government-related, HRC's emails included, should be archived ten ways to Sunday and kept forever.