http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/61-year-old_plano_man_gets_fiv.php
By Eric Nicholson
Dallas Observer
Sep. 6 2013
Despite what its name implies, Exel Transportation Services does not
actually transport anything. It's what's called an intermodal marketing
company; basically, it helps other companies ship things. Not the sexiest
business to be in, but lucrative enough to convince Exel CEO Michael
Musacchio to jump ship in 2004 after a dozen years with the company and,
after the expiration of his non-compete agreement, launch a competing
firm.
But Musacchio, a 61-year-old from Plano, wasn't content merely to compete
with his former company. He wanted to crush it. To that end, he poached
some key employees from Exel, including a vice president, Joseph Roy
Brown, and John Michael Kelly, a key figure in the company's IT
department, for the new firm, Total Transportation Services. Together,
they settled on a surefire way to gain a competitive edge: illegally
reading through Exel executives' email.
Musacchio would have been wise to remember that digital footprints are all
but impossible to erase. Either through ignorance or hubris, he did not,
which is how the federal indictment charging him with hacking into
protected computers came to be sprinkled so liberally with quotes from
conversations with his loyalists as they trolled through the email
accounts of their competitors.
And so, when Brown would forward a particularly juicy bit of information
-- an upcoming budget, maybe, or news that Exel was the target of a
potential takeover -- we know that Musacchio would respond with words of
encouragement like "you are the Man!" and "You are on fire! Take a look at
Toad's email and see if he is sucking up to Jim!"
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