Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails

"New York’s attorney general had issued a subpoena that included emails while investigating whether Exxon mislead investors about climate change risk."

"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. "

David Hasemyer reports for InsideClimate News June 8, 2017.