Facebook is dangerous, but so is email
Evidence for the 106-count indictment of four high level partners in a prestigious law firm was obtained from email messages. Charged with orchestrating a four-year scam to manipulate the firm’s books to keep it afloat during the financial crisis after emails revealed they talked openly about “fake income,” “accounting tricks” and their ability to fool the firm’s “clueless auditor.”
One of the men even used the phrase “cooking the books” to describe what they were doing to mislead the firm’s lenders and creditors in setting the stage for a $150 million debt offering that was supposed to solve the firm’s financial woes.
So a word to the wise: If you send an email, just remember it’s the least private of all communications (except for social media). And the bar is set higher for law enforcement. So unless you don’t mind if your message is blasted from the rooftops, don’t send it.