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Michael Flaherty accuses Martha Coakley of dragging feet; Martha Coakley: No e-mail probe timeline
Michael Flaherty accuses Martha Coakley of dragging feet
Martha Coakley: No e-mail probe timeline
By Richard Weir | Friday, October 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Race For Mayor
Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday brushed off demands by mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty to wrap up before Election Day her probe into whether Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s top aide broke state public records laws by “double-deleting” thousands of e-mails.
“I cannot tell you when the investigation will be done,” Coakley said. “I can’t put a timeline on it . . . If I could make a determination tomorrow, I would. The election schedule is irrelevant to our job of doing an investigation as thoroughly and fairly as possible.”
Flaherty also accused Coakley - who is in the midst of a run for U.S. Senate - of “dragging her feet” and challenged her not to “sidestep” the controversy.
Coakley, who two weeks ago changed course and agreed to review the case, must determine if Menino policy chief Michael Kineavy willfully violated state law by intentionally purging his e-mail inbox every day for years.
“One week is absolutely more than enough time,” said Flaherty, who said “voters have a right to know” the outcome of the case before they go to the polls Nov. 3.
Secretary of State William Galvin, who handed over his findings to Coakley yesterday, ratcheted up the pressure on the attorney general by declaring that some of Kineavy’s e-mails “were deleted inappropriately and without permission.”
Unwilling to rely on documents produced by a computer forensic team hired by the city, Galvin said he hired a new firm - at an expense of about $10,000 to the state, “to restore public confidence” - to scour hard drives taken from computers used by Kineavy.
The search recovered 48,000 “items,” of which Galvin’s office said the “majority are e-mails,” and he urged the city to release any new documents.
The city has provided Galvin - and posted online - nearly 10,000 deleted e-mails that its forensic team has uncovered.
Few of the e-mails were actually sent by Kineavy, and many are duplicates. Kineavy is the Menino aide mentioned by federal investigators as the liaison between the mayor and indicted ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson as she was seeking liquor licenses.
Menino said he would agree to Galvin’s request and release any additional messages. The mayor said he “welcomed” Coakley’s involvement and defended Kineavy, saying, ‘’I don’t think there is any willful attempt at all in this.”
Flaherty’s campaign partner Sam Yoon said, “For her to run out the clock before the election can’t be anything other than an egregious disservice to the voters of this city.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/mayoral_race/view.bg?articleid=120...
Martha Coakley: No e-mail probe timeline
By Richard Weir | Friday, October 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Race For Mayor
Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday brushed off demands by mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty to wrap up before Election Day her probe into whether Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s top aide broke state public records laws by “double-deleting” thousands of e-mails.
“I cannot tell you when the investigation will be done,” Coakley said. “I can’t put a timeline on it . . . If I could make a determination tomorrow, I would. The election schedule is irrelevant to our job of doing an investigation as thoroughly and fairly as possible.”
Flaherty also accused Coakley - who is in the midst of a run for U.S. Senate - of “dragging her feet” and challenged her not to “sidestep” the controversy.
Coakley, who two weeks ago changed course and agreed to review the case, must determine if Menino policy chief Michael Kineavy willfully violated state law by intentionally purging his e-mail inbox every day for years.
“One week is absolutely more than enough time,” said Flaherty, who said “voters have a right to know” the outcome of the case before they go to the polls Nov. 3.
Secretary of State William Galvin, who handed over his findings to Coakley yesterday, ratcheted up the pressure on the attorney general by declaring that some of Kineavy’s e-mails “were deleted inappropriately and without permission.”
Unwilling to rely on documents produced by a computer forensic team hired by the city, Galvin said he hired a new firm - at an expense of about $10,000 to the state, “to restore public confidence” - to scour hard drives taken from computers used by Kineavy.
The search recovered 48,000 “items,” of which Galvin’s office said the “majority are e-mails,” and he urged the city to release any new documents.
The city has provided Galvin - and posted online - nearly 10,000 deleted e-mails that its forensic team has uncovered.
Few of the e-mails were actually sent by Kineavy, and many are duplicates. Kineavy is the Menino aide mentioned by federal investigators as the liaison between the mayor and indicted ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson as she was seeking liquor licenses.
Menino said he would agree to Galvin’s request and release any additional messages. The mayor said he “welcomed” Coakley’s involvement and defended Kineavy, saying, ‘’I don’t think there is any willful attempt at all in this.”
Flaherty’s campaign partner Sam Yoon said, “For her to run out the clock before the election can’t be anything other than an egregious disservice to the voters of this city.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/mayoral_race/view.bg?articleid=120...
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