Michael Kineavy
Coakley: Mass deletion of City Hall e-mail an MIS screwup, not a criminal act
By adamg - 7/29/10 - 12:50 pmThe state Attorney General's office said today no charges are warranted against mayoral aide Michael Kineavy for deleting e-mail because he was just doing what he and other City Hall employees were told to do: Purge their inboxes every day because messages would be stored on a back up server - which turned out not to be the case.
The AG's office says Kineavy did nothing intentionally wrong and it's not his fault the City Hall e-mail system didn't work the way IS told employees it did. Investigators found no evidence that Kineavy "double deleted" e-mail in a deliberate attempt to purge messages from what turned out to be a non-existent server.
Investigators found that while the city did have backup systems, they were intended only for recovery of key records after a disaster - which meant that when a worker deleted a message from his or her inbox, it quickly disappeared into the ether, rather than being saved.
See the comments below for a statement from the AG's office. Full report.
Coakley: Almost done with probe of City Hall e-mail deletion
By adamg - 6/8/10 - 5:58 amThe Dorchester Reporter catches up with the attorney general on her probe into the way Menino aide Michael Kineavy deleted zillions of e-mail messages. Doesn't sound like there's much of a there there, but possibly some lessons-learned sort of recommendations for updates to the state public-records law.
Attorney General still hasn't decided what to do about Boston City Hall emailgate
By adamg - 3/29/10 - 4:44 pmFive months after the Secretary of State's office concluded Menino aide Michael Kineavy "inappropriately" deleted e-mail, the state Attorney General's office continues to consider what to do about the matter.
"The investigation into the Kineavy email matter is ongoing at this time," spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa said today.
Kineavy's back
By cynical - 11/11/09 - 10:31 pmMenino's aide is still under investigation, but it seems like he was really missing his job too much to stay away.
State: Kineavy shouldn't have double deleted
By adamg - 10/22/09 - 9:53 amThe Globe reports Secretary of State Bill Galvin has ruled Michael Kineavy "inappropriately" deleted e-mail messages that should have been preserved as public records. He's referred the case to Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is no doubt relieved she won't have to decide what to do until after Nov. 3.
A plea for voicemail at City Hall - and an offer of a discount at Victoria's Secret
By adamg - 10/9/09 - 11:14 pmThe city quietly posted a new batch of e-mail messages to Michael Kineavy Friday evening. Among the messages, a February, 2009 plea from Bryan Glasscock, director of the city environment department, for help in convincing Mayor Tom Menino to reconsider his decision to yank out all of City Hall's voice-mail systems:
City Hall releases second batch of e-mail
By adamg - 10/9/09 - 9:37 pmThe E-mail Archives of Michael Kineavy now has a second set of e-mail copies from the infamous old PC, the one Kineavy didn't remember getting replaced.
Kineavy e-mail now online
By adamg - 10/8/09 - 3:53 pmAt least, the stuff they've found so far that hasn't been turned over to the feds. And as PDF copies of print copies, instead of raw text files, of course.
Here.
If you find anything interesting, post here.
Via Blue Mass. Group.
Kineavex
By adamg - 10/8/09 - 1:56 pmLooks like somebody in Boston really enjoyed Wacky Packs as a kid:
Attorney General's office starts to consider City Hall e-mail
By adamg - 10/7/09 - 11:44 amThe Globe reports that Martha Coakley's office says it is now "involved" in Secretary of State Bill Galvin's effort to get City Hall to recover and turn over all those deleted e-mail messages.
