During my morning browse, I ran across this interesting article at msn.com: Rex Tillerson May Be in Hot Water Over ExxonMobil Emails. It starts:
Amid the fresh outrages over the Trump administration's budget proposal, the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and Muslim Ban 2.0,another scandal is quietly simmering. It's a story about big oil's lies and Wall Street corruption that hasn't gotten anywhere near the attention it deserves.
‘Wayne Tracker’ is the alias allegedly used by Rexxon Tillerson for his sensitive email communications to ExxonMobil’s board members, possibly including tactics for covering up it’s own climate change research. [Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating “whether the Irving, Texas-based company broke state law by misleading investors for years about the possible impact of the Earth’s warming on its business.” [Note that this is about fraudulently over-valuing its oil reserves, thus bilking pension funds and other investors, details discussed in the first link, above.]
When ExxonMobil, under subpoena, turned over its documents, lo and behold, Exxon Can’t Find Up to a Year of Tillerson’s ‘Wayne Tracker’ Emails. The company has been given a deadline of March 31 to turn them over.
The contents of the emails may lead to personal consequences for "Secretary Tracker" himself. If it emerges that he privately acknowledged larger climate risks to the company's business than what was disclosed in SEC filings, he could face criminal penalties under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He doesn't enjoy immunity from prosecution as a public official because his actions as CEO of Exxon-Mobil were not in relation to his position as secretary of state. [msn.com, first link, above.]
Additionally, abundant legal actions are pending — 20 Attorneys General Launch Climate Fraud Investigation of Exxon.
In a move many are hailing as a "turning point" in the climate fight, 20 state Attorneys General on Tuesday launched an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute the "high-funded and morally vacant forces"that have stymied attempts to combat global warming—starting with holding ExxonMobil and other industry giants accountable for fraud and suppression of key climate science.
Will Rex Tillerson Come Clean About What #ExxonKnew, As Company Itself Has Been Ordered To Do? In the words of Tamar Lawrence-Samuel, International Policy Director for Corporate Accountability International, we need to “expose not only what Exxon knew and covered up in the past but also what kind of activities and denialism it continues to fund to undermine climate action.”
RESIST! Add Rexxon Tillerson to the DumpTrump list.