The National Archives is investigating Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for using as many as four personal email accounts to conduct official government business, Politico reported Thursday.
“The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become aware of a potential unauthorized disposition of U.S. Department of Commerce records,” an official with NARA wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to the Commerce Department’s chief information officer.
The letter added that federal law “prohibits employees from creating or sending a record using a non-official messaging account unless the employee copies his or her official email account when the record is first transmitted, or forwards a complete copy of the record to the official email account within 20 days of the record’s original transmission.”
View the complete October 24 article by Dan Desai Martin on the National Memo website here.