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There is literally nothing in what he released that is obviously illegal to me. He says a bunch of it is illegal, but I'm no lawyer and it looks like one person just deleted a bunch of data and another person asked if that was really kosher and we don't know what happened after that.

I'm just not jumping to conclusions I'm not qualified to make. It's impressive to me, that you can do that.

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I don't know enough about the situation either. But now investigators can subpoena the documents whose numbers were given in the email. The purpose in detaching the DTN's from the loans they referred to, would be to prevent finding those documents even though they could (according to the email exchange) not be entirely deleted. They say in the email that the document will now only show up if you search for it by DTN, not by the loan.

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