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NY state government officials shunning e-mail: sources

ALBANY — Government officials are so worried about leaving an electronic trail as investigations swirl around the capital that some are now shunning e-mail, sources said Friday.

“I sent an e-mail to someone and they called me back, ‘Are you out of your mind? Never e-mail me again,’ ” said one lobbyist, recalling a recent conversation with a high-ranking official.

He and others are going back to old-fashioned forms of communication: Cellphones are out and land lines are back in, the lobbyist said.

“They’re more secure,” he explained.

The fear instilled into Albany’s political world comes from US Attorney Preet Bharara, who has taken possession of the records compiled by the anti-corruption Moreland Commission panel.