One does wonder just why Governor Gibbons is the target of so much hatred as to create false evidence against him:

One of the e-mails that supposedly showed Gov. Jim Gibbons was being paid off by a company he helped secure secret federal defense contracts was fabricated, lawyers for the company, eTreppid Technologies, asserted Friday.

In a filing in the federal civil lawsuit that is the basis for an FBI investigation of Gibbons, a computer expert states that the damning line, "We need to take care of him like we discussed," was never a part of e-mail correspondence between eTreppid executives after Gibbons helped them get access to Pentagon officials.

The expert concludes that Dennis Montgomery, the former eTreppid partner who is suing the company, altered the e-mail sent from eTreppid Vice President Len Glogauer to firm founder Warren Trepp, to include the sentence.

The filing doesn't address other purported e-mails Montgomery has cited as evidence that Trepp made payments to Gibbons. In one of those e-mails, Trepp's wife allegedly reminded him, "Please don't forget to bring the money you promised Jim and Dawn."

Trepp lawyer Stephen Peek said those e-mails weren't analyzed because there was no evidence they ever existed. Peek said they were never submitted in any court filing, only leaked to the media.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! But why would the former employee want to get involved in a federal case against Gibbons if he's just ticked off at his former employer? Very strange case, indeed.

I have to admit that I have far more questions than answers in this issue - my fallback position is that Gibbons' reputation for honesty should rule the day unless there is unmistakable evidence otherwise...and now that we've got some possibly fabricated evidence, the whole list of accusations begins to look shaky. One thing certain, people have it in for the Governor - and I wonder if, in the end, this isn't just aftershocks of Dina Titus' nasty campaign against Gibbons last year?

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