Paper: Trump accused of destroying email evidence in 2006 lawsuit

Posted by | June 13, 2016 19:32 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


Donald Trump with his own email scandal?

In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump’s casino operation to hand over several years’ worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001. The defendants in a case that Trump brought said this amounted to destruction of evidence, a charge never resolved.

At that time, a Trump IT director testified that until 2001, executives in Trump Tower relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services, despite the fact that Trump had launched a high-speed Internet provider in 1998 and announced he would wire his whole building with it. Another said Trump had no routine process for preserving emails before 2005.

Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld was stunned. “He has a house up in Palm Beach Countylisted for $125 million, but he doesn’t keep emails. That’s a tough one,” he said, according to transcripts obtained by USA TODAY. “If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesn’t make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that’s not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.”

…A USA TODAY Network analysis found that Trump has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades. In this case, while Trump was not accused of doing anything illegal at the time and he clearly was not a public official, there are, nonetheless, fascinating parallels between the events of 2006 and the current campaign.

The Trump campaign and his lawyers have not responded to requests for comment on this story.

 

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18 responses to Paper: Trump accused of destroying email evidence in 2006 lawsuit

  1. whatthe46 June 13th, 2016 at 19:49

    and they won’t respond.

  2. Suzanne McFly June 13th, 2016 at 19:54

    Its okay, he hates the right people.

    • Warman1138 June 13th, 2016 at 22:27

      And anyone else he’s not aware of because their neighbors haven’t turned them in yet.

  3. granpa.usthai June 13th, 2016 at 20:00

    WTF about his TAX RECORDS?

    surely, the ‘tremendously successful’ businessman would keep his TAX RECORDS as proof of what a ‘tremendously successful’ businessman trump is?

    even in Obama’s horrible market.

    KEEP AMERICA GREAT

    DEMAND TRUMP HAND OVER HIS TAX RECORDS

    BAN TRUMP KLAN JUNK & IMPORTS.

    • Suzanne McFly June 13th, 2016 at 20:21

      C’mon Grandpa, you know tax records prove nothing, even rump says so…../s

  4. amersham46 June 13th, 2016 at 20:15

    The emails are on the Benghazi server

  5. Kick Frenzy June 13th, 2016 at 20:48

    It’ll be interesting to see the reactions to this, specifically from Hillary supporters.
    It sure seems like a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” catch 22 situation.

    Either you damn Hillary by slamming Trump, or you exonerate Trump in order to protect Hillary.
    (I’m mainly thinking of the 30,000+ “personal” emails Hillary deleted, then wiped the servers of.)

    I’m predicting a lot of crickets.

    • whatthe46 June 13th, 2016 at 21:05

      “Either you damn Hillary by slamming Trump, or you exonerate Trump in order to protect Hillary.” huh?

      • Kick Frenzy June 13th, 2016 at 21:21

        If people attack Trump for deleting emails, then it’s only fair for Hillary to be attacked for the same practice.
        If you support Hillary in deleting her emails, then you can’t wholly condemn Trump for doing it.

        • whatthe46 June 13th, 2016 at 21:41

          you’re way off Kick.

        • Jack E Raynbeau June 13th, 2016 at 23:11

          Trumps emails are his business. Hillary shouldn’t have deleted emails until they were confirmed to be personal.

          I will vote for the Democratic nominee.

          • whatthe46 June 14th, 2016 at 00:59

            tRumps email may have been for business, but they were, and you better believe this, involved some very shaddy sh*t that was likely ill-legal. which is why they weren’t able to produce them in discovery. and anything that she may have deleted were more than likely very personal.

    • Obewon June 14th, 2016 at 00:32

      Trump has no emails or taxes to release. His business legal requirement is 7 years+ retention for 3,500 lawsuits, TrumpU frauds, et al, he involved himself in.

      HRC released 33 years of taxes online and: On December 5, 2014, 30,490 copies of work or potentially work-related emails sent and received by Clinton from March 18, 2009, to February 1, 2013, were provided to the State Department. This totaled roughly 55,000 pages.

      More than 90% of her work or potentially work-related emails provided to the Department were already in the State Department’s record-keeping system because those e-mails were sent to or received by “state.gov” accounts. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/

    • Buford2k11 June 14th, 2016 at 09:36

      there is no comparison…It has been determined that HRC had NO criminal intent…where as, Trump had criminal intent in the destruction of his emails…to protect himself from the law…There is only one Criminal here and it is TRUMP.

  6. Budda June 13th, 2016 at 20:59

    Put that out on the media….oh, that’s right, the media sucks

  7. Warman1138 June 13th, 2016 at 22:25

    Well, with Clinton it’s a crime, with anyone one else and now including Trump it’s a really yuge ok.

  8. granpa.usthai June 14th, 2016 at 13:27

    the LYING CROOK trump will most likely be facing upwards of 1472 counts of mail fraud and countless acts of violations of the Ricardo Act. I doubt that a few thousand missing e-mails will amount to very much in the overall convictions. This wanton FRAUD should just give it up and accept his fate like a real man instead of whimpering along like the sniveling little COWARD his very being attest to.

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