It certainly seems fishy that the records would be purposefully purged - destroyed - by Spitzer's team, even knowing that those records were sought by the District Attorney in to whether the Democrat was using State Troopers to look into Republican Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's use of state helicopters. Bruno himself remains under investigation by the FBI for his outside consulting work, but he's formally severed ties with one of those business groups.
UPDATE:
Frederick Dicker has much more on Spitzer's stonewalling, including that the Governor is refusing to give the names of the ISPs that handled the email that was deleted to investigators. Some of those emails might be recoverable depending on the email processing protocols involved for deleted emails (30/60/90 day holds before purging).
Gov. Spitzer is endangering the recovery of potentially crucial e-mail evidence relating to the Dirty Tricks Scandal by refusing to give investigators the names of Internet service providers used by himself and his aides, sources have told The Post.Spitzer definitely looks like he's got something to hide by his actions - and it's again a sign that it's business as usual in Albany.
The refusal has blocked the Senate Investigations Committee from issuing subpoenas to ISPs for personal BlackBerries and other e-mail-equipped devices known to be used by Spitzer and his senior aides.
"I sent [Spitzer counsel] David Nocenti a letter asking for the names of the ISPs in October, and he hasn't even answered me," Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner (R-Elmira) told The Post.
"Then we sent out a subpoena for the information, and the governor is fighting that in court. I can't just send out a general subpoena to Yahoo! or Hotmail or AOL or Road Runner. I need to know what ISPs are being used by the governor and his aides."
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