A protracted legal battle between a Vermont news outlet and the state attorney general has revealed gaps in the public record of how the state oversaw a fraudulent development project.
According to a tech company hired to track down the missing emails of a state official, many appear to have been deleted years before the wrongdoing was exposed. Others were found only recently — on a forgotten backup drive in a government storage closet in Montpelier — after the news outlet, VTDigger.org, repeatedly asked for them.
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