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We wouldn't be in this mess. In another case of "deleted" emails, a former Bear Sterns worker deleted his Google account, potentially to cover up emails that would reveal information about his alleged role in hedge fund fraud. Fortunately (and not surprisingly), Google has way better backups than the paper-happy mayor's office, and was able to turn in searchable information on CD-ROM to the government. Wow: companies cooperating with the government in a situation where government won't cooperate with itself. Maybe we should just turn everything over to Google. Or would that just lead to evil?

So, StoneTurn, the Boston-based computer forensics, has had a pass at Michael Kineavy's second computer, and the results, which were posted on the city of Boston's website were less than revealing. Approximately 740 new e-mails were made public, but most of them were essentially blank, retaining only the e-mail header. The newest release of e-mails reportedly did not contain e-mails submitted to federal investigators in connection with the Dianne Wilkerson corruption investigation.

The Globe reports that attorney general Martha Coakley has finally gotten involved in the Kineavy email scandal. The U.S. Senate candidate said that her office was now "inovlved" in the effort "to determine whether there have been any violations of the public records law by [Boston] City officials.

Seems the ol' second computer trick didn't quite do it. Pressed by the Secretary of State to turn over email records, Mayor Tom Menino's chief of policy, Michael Kineavy, is taking a leave until the mystery of the "missing" (er, deleted) emails can be solved. Resignations always look suspiciously like admissions of guilt, but Menino claims his staffers are being "forthright" and cooperative on the issue; we can only assume that by "forthright" he means "bumbling and incompetent." At this point, though, the issue is not about cooperation--it's about whether Kineavy broke the law. This may be a lame comparison, but you can still get a ticket for speeding even if you didn't realize how fast you were going.

Remember when the Secretary of State ordered Menino aide Michael Kineavy's computer seized so that a computer forensic expert could pore over his hard drive and recover his supposedly deleted emails? And then the city released 5018 "lost" emails and claimed that it couldn't provide any emails Kineavy sent to people outside of City Hall because recovering them would be too expensive?

We could see it coming. The Secretary of State has ordered the seizure of city computers due to suspicion that Menino aide Michael Kineavy has been deleting emails in violation of public records law. The state has ordered the city to attempt to recover the emails. The administration was able to locate just 18 e-mails to or from Kineavy in the period from Oct. 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009. Considering we get that many emails an hour, something seems sketchy.