Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used a secondary email with an alias “Wayne Tracker.” He used it to communicate with Exxon board meters about sensitive matters like climate change. A year of emails has disappeared!

“Exxon Mobil Corp. may have lost as much as a year’s worth of emails that former Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson used to discuss climate change risks and other sensitive issues under the alias ‘Wayne Tracker,’ a lawyer for New York state told a judge.

“Tillerson, now U.S. secretary of state, used the pseudonym account for communicating with company board members, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is investigating whether the Irving, Texas-based company broke state law by misleading investors for years about the possible impact of the Earth’s warming on its business.

“John Oleske, a senior enforcement lawyer for New York, cited the missing emails at a hearing in Manhattan Wednesday to bolster his claim that Exxon is failing to comply with a subpoena in the case despite turning over more than 2 million pages of documents. In court, Oleske described Exxon’s admission of missing emails as a “bombshell.”

“Exxon concedes that it failed to preserve all documents from an alias email account used by Rex Tillerson,” Oleske said in a court filing before the hearing. “Exxon’s conduct outside this court reflects a pattern of stonewalling and disingenuousness.”

“Both parties agreed to discuss possible ways, if any, to recover emails that may have been lost and report back to the court by March 31.”

Someone on Twitter suggested that Rex should ask his friend Putin to find them.