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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:35 AM Apr 2013

3 judge panel on Republican missing files: “fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct”

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/04/fraud-misrepresentation-or-misconduct.html


It is appearing that AFTER they were ordered to turn over all files to the democrats, someone logged into the taxpayer owned computers and deleted hundreds of thousands of emails!

New federal court filings allege that legislative aides appear to have deleted “hundreds of thousands” of files at “suspicious times” from state computers used by Republicans in redistricting.

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The filings are part of a post-trial investigation ordered by the three-judge federal panel that heard the redistricting case. A final report on the investigation is due May 10.

Finding that “fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct” likely occurred, the judges ordered a post-trial investigation into the missing records. In February, the panel ordered the state to turn over three redistricting computers that had been housed at the Madison office of the Michael, Best and Friedrich law firm.

Predictably, the party of "personal responsibility&quot yes, I know. That is funny to me also) took none. Scott Fitzgerald who will take any chance to ramble aimlessly on telling us how bad democrats are seems to have lost his tongue when it comes to fraud on his watch. Robin Vos has forgotten anything that happened, and refers all questions to the Wisconsin taxpayer funded attorneys representing him in this misconduct.

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3 judge panel on Republican missing files: “fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct” (Original Post) Scuba Apr 2013 OP
The ghost of Rose Mary Woods. progressoid Apr 2013 #1
Big surprise Augiedog Apr 2013 #2
+ 1,000 Scuba Apr 2013 #3
OK, who spends time in prison over this? NBachers Apr 2013 #4
They'll pick someone from the secretarial pool. nt valerief Apr 2013 #5
They'll pick someone nearing retirement to alfredo Apr 2013 #6
I may be naive about this, but... KansDem Apr 2013 #7
Depends how it was done ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #8
Thanks KansDem Apr 2013 #9
It depends if the emails and files were stored on a hard drive or offsite. Also depends if the MillennialDem Apr 2013 #10
Money will smooth this wrinkle away.... midnight Apr 2013 #11

Augiedog

(2,541 posts)
2. Big surprise
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:24 AM
Apr 2013

Isn't it about time the Feds take a look at applying RICO statutes to the Walker administration and its seditious activities?

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
7. I may be naive about this, but...
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:39 AM
Apr 2013

Can't these emails be "undeleted?" By that, I mean isn't the email still on the hard drive(s)? Couldn't a savvy techie find them again?


ProgressiveProfessor

(22,144 posts)
8. Depends how it was done
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:56 AM
Apr 2013

There was another thread here over the weekend(?) about how the plaintiff is seeking financial support for the computer forensics costs which have exceeded 100K to date.

 

MillennialDem

(2,367 posts)
10. It depends if the emails and files were stored on a hard drive or offsite. Also depends if the
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 11:37 AM
Apr 2013

files were stored on a traditional platter style hard drive or a solid state drive (mostly used by people who play computer games, unlikely to be used by rethugs).

A lot easier to recover off a platter drive.

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