Retreiving company deleted emails?

Question

I am in a court case with my exwife for child custody. We subpoenaed her company emails. (she was using her company computer to speak with her boyfriend). However, the company only produced the emails she had not deleted. She deleted all the relevant ones. We did a motion to compel against her employer. They have responded saying that it is company policy to remove ALL deleted email after "21" days and there is no way for them to recover such.

I am somewhat familiar with systems and my opinion based more on criminal case history is nothing is EVER totally removed from a system. It may be deleted and overwritten, but can still be recovered with effort.

What would someone suggest my arguement be to the court system on how this company could still recover the personal deleted emails from the employee? Is there a company that specializes in such?

Any direction would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi!

You are, to some extent right.
First, find out what "his" :( e-mail account was and then move in the court (or negotiate separately) for his account data (all past to present e-mails), since serious companies keep the logs for two years and also, "his" :( e-mail provider has data that is relevant to your case, in which case they should help ( obstruction of justice). By the time you read this he probably deleted the messages. Which takes us to point two.

Secondly, various amounts of data can be restored even after deletion. For that you must, however, request certified, first hand expertise from various companies around the world. If you live in the US call Ontrack or Power Quest ( fire up your search engine and search for "data recovery", pick from there). If you live elsewhere, just call whoever suits you! Remember, this has to be done rather quickly since, your chances of getting relevant info to your case are running low with each moment passing by.

I recommend you move for legal actions to retrieve data from both hard disk drives and to find out if there are any BACK UP servers, in either parts ("his" or "hers") which you may find of GREAT assistance.

I don't live in the US, but I think that there is a system that monitors and stores various e-mails (probably randomly) for a six month period, however I cannot remember the name of the system.

If you have a home connection, you should also try retrieving data from that system too, since chances are that that system had a part in this ugly matter.

I sincerely hope you'll solve this issue according to your wishes!
Good luck!

PS. The custody of the child is usually granted to the parent that is most given to its parental and family duties.
Yes, there are companies that can offer you assistance for this matter. But, for that, you must talk to various companies. Such companies also offer assistance for other companies in civil or financial frauds that happen over the internet. Try talking to your company's IT department for more info.

PS2. You use the info here at your own risk. No liability would be held by me, for any of the actions you decide to take.

Answer 2

You could call a computer repair service but they'd have no right to go in there without the owners' permission. The judge might take your word for it, but cheating doesn't usually have an effect on custody unless she was putting the kids in danger, and it sounds like she was doing it on work time, not kid time. If the kids were always somewhere safe while she cheated on you, it's not likely to affect custody.

Answer 3

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