Paul Combetta

Reddit posting asking other tech professionals how to “strip out” and batch convert the emails of a “VERY VIP” client, for the sole purpose of concealing that “VERY VIP” client’s email address. According to the post, “they don’t want the VIP’s email address exposed to anyone.”

Paul Combetta was an IT specialist working at Platte River Networks, who held Hillary Clinton's illegally procured State Department emails after she left office. Combetta destroyed evidence under congressional subpoena by scrubbing Hillary Clinton's illegal server with BleachBit.

Cambotta immunity

On September 8, 2016, Congress discovered that Paul Combetta of Platte River Networks was granted immunity by the Department of Justice in relation to information he provided to the FBI in its investigation into the Clinton email server. On September 13, 2016, Combetta appeared before a Congressional oversight committee and invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, refusing to testify.