Clinton aide accused of email violation
p2pnet news | politics:- US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist is being accused of illegal email eavesdropping.
A civil lawsuit claims he and his polling firm, “monitored the personal e-mails of a former associate who started a rival company,” says Associated Press, going on:
Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, claims in the suit that the firm began monitoring all messages sent from his personal Blackberry device nearly a month after he had resigned and become president of his new business. The suit claims that the founder of the firm, Mark Penn, who is Clinton’s strategist and pollster, knew about and approved of the monitoring, which the suit says violates federal wiretapping laws.
Penn, Schoen & Berland, a world-renowned firm that has helped elect clients like former President Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is accused of hacking into Markel’s Blackberry and rigging his e-mail accounts to send blind carbon copies of his e-mails to another account that it had set up. The suit says the Blackberry that Markel used was always his own, never the property of his former employer.
But Penn, Schoen & Berland lawyer Howard Rubin denies the company has done anything wrong or improper.
The emails, “came in on our own e-mail account,” AP has him saying, adding:
“Markel’s suit seeks monetary damages and asks the court to restrain Penn, Schoen from disclosing or using any of the intercepted electronic communications, including for competitive use or in any trial or court proceeding, and asks that they be ordered to destroy everything they intercepted.”
Also See:
Associated Press – Clinton Pollster Sued Over E-Mails, July 3, 2007
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