Dec 5, 2011 ... ... left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor's staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney's administration wiped from state servers, state officials say.
Mar 3, 2015 ... Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and some of his top aides used private email accounts to conduct state business. ... Law. The Romney files, which span four months in mid-2006, represent the first substantive emails written by him to surface since he left public office in 2007. When the AP ...
Of course, states differ on the range of electronic communications they say should be exempt from records requests. A few states exclude governors or other public ... On the other side of that coin, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver recently announced that he will release e-mail sent in his first two years of office using private computers ...
Nov 21, 2011 ... Last week, a Boston Globe investigation uncovered that former Gov. Mitt Romney's administration destroyed emails, purchased hard drives, and otherwise obliterated all digital records of his time as governor of Massachusetts. This happened as Romney was leaving the state to campaign for president (the ...
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Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.