"Tillerson Used ‘Alias’ Email for Climate Messages, N.Y. Says"

"New York says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to discuss climate change while he was Exxon Mobil Corp.’s chief executive: Wayne Tracker.

Tillerson sent messages from the account to discuss the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a court filing about his office’s fraud investigation of the company. Tillerson, whose middle name is Wayne, used the Wayne Tracker account on the Exxon system from at least 2008 through 2015, Schneiderman said.

Schneiderman made the claim in a letter Monday to Justice Barry Ostrager in New York state court in Manhattan, accusing Exxon of failing to turn over all relevant documents required by a court order. The filing comes in a protracted legal dispute in which Exxon seeks to derail probes by New York and Massachusetts into whether the company misled investors for years about the possible impact of climate change on its business."

Erik Larson reports for Bloomberg March 13, 2017.

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"Tillerson Used Email Alias At Exxon To Talk Climate: New York Attorney General" (Reuters)

"Exxon Concealed Tillerson's 'Alias' Emails in Climate Fraud Probe, NY AG Claims" (InsideClimate News)