ScooBySnaCk
Administrator
Going to jail for deleting work email? Seems like an airtight case here. You cracked it!
There is a case recently where an employee was being discharged and went through and deleted all of his email and docs before leaving. He was charged with destruction of company property. I would imagine the same case would hold especially for the government with a higher penalty due to the nature of those emails. No different than the feds raid your house and find you torching paper you are wanting to hide.
Electronic laws have slowly been coming around.