Lawyers representing former chief utility regulator Marissa Gillett conceded in court Tuesday that she and her staff knew of the deletion of electronic records, but misled a judge by failing to disclose the erasure and claiming the records could not be located.

In an unusual colloquy with the judge presiding over a utility suit, an assistant attorney general defending the Public Utility Regulatory Authority answered “yes” when asked whether PURA misled the court by choosing not to admit that it was aware records sought by the court had been erased from Gillett’s telephone by an auto delete program.

A prolonged exchange between Judge Matthew J. Budzik and assistant attorney general Seth Hollander focused on a missing and disputed text message exchange that is at the center of bias a

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