Read the last batch of former North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem's emails

FARGO — Over two years after a records request from The Forum led to the revelation that former

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s

emails were ordered to be deleted, the last of those public documents have been released.

The initial records request submitted by The Forum in June 2022 was prompted by the news that the Attorney General’s Office had seen a $1.7 million cost overrun on the lease of office space. Current Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters earlier this month that a copy of Stenehjem’s phone was stored on a Bureau of Criminal Investigation computer after the former attorney general’s phone was unlocked using their software.

The Forum received 6,366 emails Thursday, Sept. 6, from the Attorney General’s Office. The emails span 8 documents, each containing about 1,000 pages.

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Read the entirety of the emails below:

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