[GregNH]

From the article;
the policy of the HESC is not to destroy records and microfilm is contained in the safe of the corporation. She further advised Taitz that several employees of the HESC made copies of the microfilm, in case the management decides to destroy the evidence.

Emphasis added.

[frog in a pot]

Thanks, I got the substance of your “emphasis added” contribution when I first read the article and referred to it in my #46.

To repeat, my greatest concern is that the evidence in this regard may not have been gathered in a competent and professional manner. We have seen this in the recent past, and while many of us applaud Orley’s efforts most of us realize she is a neophyte in perhaps the biggest game of its sort in history. This pursuit is not an OTJ learner lawsuit, and she has been working with her own money and doesn’t appear to ask for professional assistance.

As a for instance in this regard, we are told the microfilm was kept in a safe. Assuming it was a security safe rather than a fire cabinet with broad access, there was absolutely no reason to publicize that fact. However, it may well narrow the list of “suspects” if one is now trying to determine who breached HEC’s security and “stole” their records. Who do those folks work with or tend to have lunch with? Are the employees subject to polygraph tests, or can they merely be intimidated with a request? It gets very sad very quickly.

If Occidental was on a “full scholarship” there might be just a single application with HEC and that is all there is to be had. On the other hand, that assertion may well be an intentional and important head fake.

Was there an opportunity to reasonably review HEC’s records? If so, did “they” have the foresight to obtain copies of each of the various data systems that contain the student’s name? If so, and they captured a vein of the HEC system that flowed for what may have been several dozen months, it would make any effective tampering extremely difficult or even impossible.