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WINDSORGATE UPDATE: Another EPA official found using private email

By Examiner Watchdog Staff
Published February 27, 2013 5:00am ET
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WINDSORGATE UPDATE: Another EPA official found using private email
Jared Blumenfeld, Region Nine Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, used a private email account to conduct official business. Earlier today, this cutline incorrectly reported that Blumenfeld resigned in connection with the private email. (EPA Photo)

Another regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been found using a private email account to conduct official business.

Region Nine administrator Jared Blumenfeld’s Nov. 19, 2011, message to then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson concerning the resignation of Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope was sent using his private Comcast email account and was addressed to her fake “Richard Windsor” government email account.

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