Mesa Reportedly Destroyed Evidence

The Honoloulu Star Bulletin reported allegations by Hawaiian Airlines that Mesa Chief Financial Officer Peter Murnane destroyed evidence required in the case it has against the parent company of go! Airlines. Its lawsuit against Mesa is scheduled for trial September 25 in U.S. Bankruptcy court and charges Mesa used investment proposals to gain confidential competitive information later used in its launch of go!. The newspaper quoted a filing by Hawaiian saying Murnane “engaged in willful and deliberate spoliation of evidence on three of his computers” despite orders by his own attorneys to preserve the evidence. The airline cited an e-mail Murnane wrote asking how to delete files so it would seem they never existed on the hard drive. Signs of program deletions were on two laptops used by Murnane along with his home computer, said Hawaiian.