Now why would they do this? I'm certain the whacko lefites have a dopey answer fed to them by their bosses...
Smartmatic Executives Deleted Data, Messages Related to Lawsuit Over Election Reporting
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Specifically, Fox alleges in its new complaint, “On the eve of filing this lawsuit, and while the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Smartmatic and its executives for bribery and corruption, Smartmatic’s CEO Antonio Mugica, in writing, ordered Smartmatic’s President Roger Piñate Jr. — who has since been federally indicted for those crimes — to delete WhatsApp mobile messages discussing critical damages issues surrounding the outlandish $2.7 billion the company planned to seek from Fox.”
The media company further contended that, several days prior to those alleged actions, “a top Smartmatic executive, again in writing, directed his subordinates to doctor key customer records to manufacture support for the massive damages case Smartmatic had invented.”
“[W]hile they should have been retaining documents, key Smartmatic employees deleted their mobile messages, depriving Fox of yet more evidence undermining Smartmatic’s unsupported damages claim,” the complaint reads.
The legal filing includes allegations that almost “two dozen Smartmatic executives and sales personnel deleted data relevant to Smartmatic’s multi-billion-dollar damages claims either shortly before or while this case was pending.” “For many witnesses,” Fox argued, “the spoliation is pervasive and resulted in the apparent deletion of all, or nearly all, of their mobile data.”
“The destroyed text messages have left serious gaps in the record from individuals who were directly responsible for developing Smartmatic’s farfetched damages story,” the filing reads. “
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