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~.~ n~~ }}~. hd ~wf <br />9~~~ I °~ <br />City releases 5,018 `lost' a-mails <br />Partial response to Galvin order on Menino aide's messages; <br />Some files relate to Wilkerson, Turner investigation <br />september is, Zoos ~--~~~ ~.~~1.~tt~[~ ~~~~ <br />http://www. boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/26/ <br />city_releases_5018_lost_e_mails/ <br />This story was reported and written by Donovan Slack, Michael Levenson, Michael Rezendes, <br />and Stephanie Ebbert of the Globe staff. <br />Boston city officials, after previously contending that they could find only 18 a-mails on <br />the computer of one of Mayor Thomas M. Menino's top aides, yesterday produced <br />copies of more than 5,000 a-mails sent or received by the official, who had been <br />double-deleting his correspondence for the last five years. <br />City officials also said they had found and transferred to the US attorney's office a <br />separate packet of Michael J. Kineavy's e-mails, mostly fragments, as part of the city's <br />response to a federal subpoena in a corruption investigation of former state senator <br />Dianne Wilkerson and current City Councilor Chuck Turner. A key witness in the <br />pending probe has identified Kineavy as Wilkerson's sole contact in the Menino <br />administration in her alleged effort to secure a liquor license for a Roxbury nightclub. <br />The 5,018 a-mails released yesterday were culled from the accounts of other city <br />employees who communicated electronically with Kineavy. They do not include any e- <br />mails that Kineavy exchanged with people outside City Hall, even though the <br />secretary of state had ordered the city to recover all of Kineavy's e-mails. City officials <br />said retrieving those messages would require scouring his hard drive and city backup <br />tapes and could cost $250,000. <br />"The report we're getting back is that this is extremely difficult and problematic," said <br />William Sinnott, the city's chief lawyer. " 'Cost-prohibitive' is also coming back." <br />The e-mails related to the Wilkerson and Turner probes were not released. Sinnott <br />said the city did not want to jeopardize the ongoing investigation. Federal prosecutors <br />had subpoenaed the city last fall, asking for all communications, including a-mail, <br />between Kineavy and Wilkerson, Turner, or their aides. <br />A review of the a-mails released yesterday provided a rare glimpse into the Witty-gritty, <br />