REPORT: Rex Tillerson Used Email Alias To Cloak Climate Change Talk From Exxon’s Public Records

Talking Points Memo reports:

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to discuss issues related to climate change while he was an executive at ExxonMobil, according to the New York attorney general. Attorney General Eric Scheiderman made the claim in a letter Monday asking a New York state judge to enforce a subpoena for documents in the state’s probe into whether Exxon misled investors about what it knew about climate change and its impact on the company.

“OAG found that Exxon’s former Chairman and CEO, Rex Wayne Tillerson, utilized an alias email address on the Exxon system under the pseudonym ‘Wayne Tracker’ from at least 2008 through 2015,” John Oleske, a lawyer in Schneiderman’s office, wrote in the letter. “Mr. 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 OAG’s investigation.”

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The State Department said that inquiries related to Tillerson’s email accounts should be directed to Exxon (XOM). The oil company confirmed that Tillerson had used the “Wayne Tracker” email while CEO. In a statement it also said it had provided more than 2.5 million pages of documents to the attorney general.

In addition to the email alias used by Tillerson, Schneiderman’s office said that it has identified 34 other email accounts assigned to top executives, board members and their assistants that had not been disclosed by Exxon. Schneiderman’s office requested that the court order Exxon to produce documents related to the accounts.