Partial response to Galvin order on Menino aide’s messages;Some files relate to Wilkerson, Turner investigation
Boston city officials, after previously contending that they could find only 18 e-mails on the computer of one of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s top aides, yesterday produced copies of more than 5,000 e-mails sent or received by the official, who had been double-deleting his correspondence for the last five years.
City officials also said they had found and transferred to the US attorney’s office a separate packet of Michael J. Kineavy’s e-mails, mostly fragments, as part of the city’s response to a federal subpoena in a corruption investigation of former state senator Dianne Wilkerson and current City Councilor Chuck Turner. A key witness in the pending probe has identified Kineavy as Wilkerson’s sole contact in the Menino administration in her alleged effort to secure a liquor license for a Roxbury nightclub.
The 5,018 e-mails released yesterday were culled from the accounts of other city employees who communicated electronically with Kineavy. They do not include any e-mails that Kineavy exchanged with people outside City Hall, even though the secretary of state had ordered the city to recover all of Kineavy’s e-mails. City officials said retrieving those messages would require scouring his hard drive and city backup tapes and could cost $250,000.
“The report we’re getting back is that this is extremely difficult and problematic,’’ said William Sinnott, the city’s chief lawyer. “ ‘Cost-prohibitive’ is also coming back.’’
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Source: boston.com
By: Boston Globe Staff
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