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Posted at 3:18 PM on September 28, 2007 by K&L Gates

Morgan Stanley to Pay Millions for E-Mail Mismanagement

By Elena Malykhina from InformationWeek, September 28, 2007:

"The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority this week said Morgan Stanley has to pay $12.5 million in fines to resolve charges for mishandling e-mail dated before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Morgan Stanley on numerous occasions failed to provide e-mails requested by claimants in arbitration proceedings and regulators, FINRA said.

The financial company previously had stated that its e-mail servers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, resulting in the loss of e-mails archived prior to that date. Morgan Stanley presumably had lost millions of pre-9/11 e-mails, but it was later discovered that they had been restored to the company's active e-mail system using backup tapes, which were stored in another location. "

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