Missing E-Mails Roil Shapiro Administration Sexual Harassment Scandal

By Broad+Liberty

A week’s worth of emails from a former Shapiro administration deputy cabinet secretary no longer exist.

That’s what an attorney conceded in court last month as he represented Gov. Josh Shapiro’s attempt to suppress Broad + Liberty’s legal effort to obtain more documents on the biggest scandal Shapiro has confronted in his first term. The employee in question, a young woman who claimed she was sexually harassed by a top Shapiro aide in 2023, no longer works for the commonwealth.

The revelation made in court on February 12th raises the specter that the emails were purposefully deleted because they could shed new light on the scandal. The government’s lawyer seemed to suggest, instead, that they were merely deleted for matters of good digital hygiene.

But government regulations indicate the emails should have been preserved a minimum of three years, if not longer. In this case, however, the emails were deleted substantially sooner.

In September 2023, Shapiro’s director of legislative affairs, Mike Vereb, resigned because one of his deputies had accused him of workplace sexual harassment in February and March of that year, the very first weeks of the Shapiro administration.

Read the entire article HERE: Shapiro admin can’t locate key emails in sexual harassment case — “zero emails on the server…is preposterous”