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FOIA News: Advisers used Greek letters to avoid Michigan FOIAs

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Democrat governor's consultant used email coded with Greek to thwart public records searches: lawsuit

Email to top Whitmer adviser expressed 'some major red flags'

 By Kyle Morris, Fox News, Aug. 31, 2023

A coded email sent by a consultant to a policy adviser for Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was used to "conceal" certain information related to the state's handling of a local water crisis from becoming public knowledge, according to a lawsuit filed by residents of Benton Harbor.

Andrew Leavitt, who once served as a consultant to Michigan’s energy department, used letters from the Greek alphabet to send the September 2021 email to Kara Cook, Whitmer's senior energy adviser, the class action lawsuit alleges.

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