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FBI Charges Pennsylvannia Senate Staff Members in Data Wipe Case

Brian Robinson writes on FCW.com:

The FBI arrested two Pennsylvania Senate staff members May 31 and charged them with obstruction of justice because they wiped e-mail messages and other data from the computers and personal digital assistants of a state senator under investigation for corruption.

Leonard Luchko and Mark Eister were employees of Senate Democratic Computer Services (SDCS), a Pennsylvania State Senate organization that provides computer assistance to Democratic members of the Senate.

The FBI complaint and affidavit state that when Luchko and Eister learned the senator to whom they were assigned was the subject of a federal investigation, they intentionally destroyed all e-mail messages concerning the senator and another organization so that investigators could not recover them.

posted by Fergie @ 6/01/2006 03:04:00 PM