Tillerson Used An ‘Alias’ Email To Discuss Climate Change At Exxon
The New York Attorney General alleged on Monday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, while he was CEO of Exxon Mobil, used an “alias email account” to discuss climate change issues.
In a letter to a state judge, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office said an investigation into the company’s climate science had revealed Tillerson used an alternate email account under the name “Wayne Tracker” to discuss climate changes issues.
The New York Attorney General’s office noted that Tillerson used the “alias” account between at least 2008 and 2015.
The New York A.G. had issued a subpoena for internal Exxon documents related to an investigation into the whether the company knew about climate change years prior to publicly disclosing it.
Schneiderman’s office told the judge that Exxon did not included emails from the “Wayne Tracker” alias account in its reply to the subpoena and that company officials didn’t even acknowledged that the account existed.
“Tillerson used this secondary email address to send and receive materials regarding important matters, including those concerning to the risk-management issues related to climate change that are the focus of the investigation,” the attorney general’s office, wrote.
Schneiderman said about the issue, “Despite the company’s incidental production of approximately 60 documents bearing the ‘Wayne Tracker’ email address, neither Exxon nor its counsel have ever disclosed that this separate email account was a vehicle for Mr. Tillerson’s relevant communications at Exxon, and no documents appear to have been collected from this email account.”
The letter was first reported in Bloomberg News.
