Gov. Cuomo Leaves No Email Trail

.....A request under the state Freedom of Information Law for any emails sent or received by Cuomo since his first day in office turned up zero messages from 2011 through early February 2016.

Nor did Cuomo’s office turn over any messages sent through BlackBerry Messenger, a hard-to-trace messenging service widely reported to be a communication tool favored by the Democratic governor.....

....Cuomo doesn’t have a state email account, according to his office. And his BlackBerry, which he has been known to use to communicate with his staff and confidants, isn’t owned by the state.

“Please be advised that Governor Cuomo does not have a state email account or a state issued Blackberry,” Mongthu Zago, Cuomo’s FOIL counsel, wrote in a letter Wednesday to Gannett’s Albany Bureau. “Executive Chamber staff do not use personal email accounts to conduct state business.”....

....Twice in the past year, Gannett’s Albany Bureau requested all emails sent to or received by Cuomo on an official state email account, as well as any state-related emails sent on a personal account.

The bureau also requested any state-related BlackBerry Messenger messages sent or received by Cuomo.

The requests turned up nothing.

“The New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search for the records you request and does not possess records responsive to your request,” Sherry Hwang, then Cuomo’s FOIL counsel, wrote in an April 2015 letter.

“Please be advised that the New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search but does not possess records responsive to your request,” Zago wrote Wednesday.....

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/albany-watch/2016/03/13/email-gov-cuomo/81727150/ Also: https://plus.google.com/111840483151288487297/posts/K5JfueRT18z

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