Mesa Airlines' CFO - Unethical or just stupid?

[Hokulele]

So was this guy trying to destroy evidence, was he just stupid, or are the attorneys trying to invent some kind of distraction?

Link (http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709260410)

The parent of go! airlines said yesterday its chief financial officer, Peter Murnane, accidentally erased data relating to a pending court case when he was deleting pornographic material from his work computers.

Hawaiian Airlines is suing Mesa Air Group for allegedly using confidential Hawaiian Airlines business information to launch Mesa's low-cost interisland carrier go! last year.

Hawaiian alleged Murnane —who was placed on a 90-leave by Mesa's board last week — deleted hundreds of pages of computer records that would have shown that Mesa misappropriated the Hawaiian information.

But Mesa says any deletion was not intentional and they have copies of the deleted files.

[rtalman]

IMO, he probably tried to get rid of the incriminating files on purpose.

From the link:
Hawaiian has previously cited e-mails in which Murnane asked a friend to help delete computer files to make it appear that the files never were on Murnane's computer hard drives. The e-mails were sent about a week after Hawaiian filed its lawsuit against Mesa.

If an exec wants gifs and mpgs off of his network, he would most likely get the IT guy to take care of it for him.

[Hokulele]

IMO, he probably tried to get rid of the incriminating files on purpose.

From the link:


If an exec wants gifs and mpgs off of his network, he would most likely get the IT guy to take care of it for him.



That was my thought. In addition, do people at the "C" (CFO, COO, CEO, etc.) level of fairly large corporations really use work computers for porn? Maybe I am just naive, but I would hope that most of them would be smart enough to not do that with company assets.

[TragicMonkey]

If an exec wants gifs and mpgs off of his network, he would most likely get the IT guy to take care of it for him.

And then the IT guy can offer to sell him back the copies he made of those files.

[slingblade]

That was my thought. In addition, do people at the "C" (CFO, COO, CEO, etc.) level of fairly large corporations really use work computers for porn? Maybe I am just naive, but I would hope that most of them would be smart enough to not do that with company assets.

A certain number of people at that level, I am opining, may feel nine-foot-tall and bulletproof.

(that sort of thinking never strikes me as exactly "smart." :p)