Sec. of State Rex Tillerson now has an email problem

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Samantha Page
Climate Reporter at @ThinkProgress.
Mar 14
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson now has an email problem
The former Exxon head used an alias to discuss climate change.


At least it’s not Carlos Danger.

Another alias email account — that of “Wayne Tracker”— is poised to cause problems for a high-level official, this time former Exxon CEO and current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Tillerson used an alias email account from at least 2008 to 2015 to discuss climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office said in a court filing Monday.

Schneiderman, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, and the Securities and Exchange Commission are currently investigating whether Exxon defrauded the public by engaging in a campaign to discredit climate science, propping up the value of its oil and gas reserves. The Wayne Tracker email account — Tillerson’s middle name is Wayne — was discovered in the course of the investigation, known as the Exxon Knew case.

“This is a significant development in Schneiderman’s investigation into what Exxon knew about climate change, when it knew it, and what the company did to conceal it,” Naomi Ages, Greenpeace’s lead on the climate liability project, said in a statement. “Was Rex Tillerson that worried about climate risks for Exxon? Or was he more worried about the risk of revealing them to hi

s shareholders and to the public? Or was it both?”

The SEC is reportedly investigating Exxon

Documents uncovered in 2015 suggest that as far back as the 1970s, Exxon scientists knew that burning fossil fuels were the primary contributor to climate change.

Environmentalists have long been saying that to prevent catastrophic climate change, humanity needs to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels. But Exxon — as well as the Koch brothers and other fossil fuel interests — have worked against that effort, funding attempts to discredit the theory of global warming.

It is illegal for a company to withhold liability risks from its shareholders.

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https://thinkprogress.org/sec-of-state-rex-tillerson-now-has-an-email-problem-594114c22f91#.5a98vssh6

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1. Wayne's World (RR*)

* russian-republican

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. I like this reporting.

Tillerson clearly tried to hide information from prosecutors.

Nothing too complicated here.