The senator's decision to hold hearings about the retention of electronic documents was reported Monday in The New York Post.
These include: the use of intimidation or threats, isolation, restriction of movement, abuse of vulnerability, deception, physical violence, abusive living or working conditions and retention of identity documents.
Lack of consent can include induced indebtedness and deception about the type and terms of work, withholding or non-payment of wages and the retention of identity documents.
It said these included "deficiencies in recording material transactions timely, and in the organization and retention of financial documents and accounting records".
Creedon said the scale of the retention of the documents kept by the unit was staggering, and it was an "irony" that if it had stuck to the rules no evidence of wrongdoing would have remained.
Nor is the issue of digital copying neglected, both for what it means for the retention of physical documents and for the virtue of human memory increasingly falling back on electronic helpmeets.
In the filing, Seidman said it had "communicated a material weakness in internal control to the audit committee and management" that the company had "deficiencies in recording material transactions timely, and in the organization and retention of financial documents and accounting records".
The charges against Harold Martin III, a 51-year-old contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, became public today: He's facing counts of theft of government property and removal or retention of classified documents.
They are now high enough on the ladder to drive the action, as Ms. Temple may have done when she instructed Andersen employees on the company's policy concerning the retention (or destruction) of documents.
