The Columbus Dispatch

Sessions vows effort to find missing texts

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will “leave no stone unturned” to locate five months’ worth of missing text messages from an FBI agent who was removed last summer from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigat­ive team, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.

The department last month began providing lawmakers with copies of text communicat­ions to and from the veteran counterint­elligence agent, Peter Strzok, who was reassigned from Mueller’s Russia investigat­ion after the discovery of anti-Trump messages he had traded by phone with an FBI lawyer.

The department on Friday gave additional text messages to congressio­nal committees. But a letter accompanyi­ng that delivery revealed that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages on bureau phones had failed to preserve communicat­ions between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. The latter date is when Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigat­e potential coordinati­on between Russia and the Trump campaign. home last week, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said.

The alleged crimes occurred over four weeks starting in midDecembe­r in San Luis Obispo, a city of about 45,000. AlarconNun­ez’s victims are between 19 and 22.

Alarcon-Nunez, 39, faces 10 criminal charges, including rape of an intoxicate­d victim and firstdegre­e burglary. Maria.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority was founded in 1979 as a public utility run by appointees of the island’s governor. Gov. Ricardo Rossello said privatizat­ion will bring more affordable rates and better service to consumers as well as help attract more business to an island mired in an 11-year-old recession.

In the next couple of days, government officials will start a process to sell the assets of the power company, which is roughly $9 billion in debt.

Diamond will get the lifetime achievemen­t award at Sunday’s Grammy awards.

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