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“What?” Dennis asked.
Syd handed Dennis several sheets of paper. “The private email you set up on the computer was hidden, but Oleg found it.”
“What private email?” I asked.
Dennis was busy reading the sheets.
Oleg spoke up. “It wasn’t that well hidden, and it contains—”
Syd interrupted him. “Jennifer, it’s the emails you sent to theTimesto publish.”
My mouth went dry as I read the sheets with the articles I knew well, and each email said it had been sent by darkhorse666 to theTimesshortly before the first two articles had been published, just like he said.
“This isn’t me,” I told them. “I didn’t write these.”
“They’re on your computer, and they were sent to the paper. The dates match up with the stories.”
I looked to Dennis, who hadn’t said anything yet. “I swear I didn’t write these.”
Dennis read another page. “I don’t see the latest one here.”
“That’s all we found,” Oleg answered.
“How could you?” Syd said, looking squarely at me. He’d clearly already convicted me in his mind. “These are company trade secrets. You know sending these out to the paper is a federal offense.”
“I told you I didn’t write those.”
“It’s in black and white, perfectly clear to me,” he shot back.
“It’s not clear to me,” Dennis said.
I blew out a relieved breath.
“Syd, you’re not helping,” Dennis added. He put the sheets down. “Oleg, could these have been placed on the computer by someone else?”
The computer guy cocked his head. “It’s possible, but they would have had to access the machine directly. It’s also possible that she clicked on some malware on the web that downloaded it.”
“I don’t go clicking around the web. I know better than that,” I protested.
“I just said it’s possible,” Oleg explained.
Dennis steepled his hands. “And the SEC guys—would they be able to tell if that happened?”
“No. If I can’t tell, they certainly can’t. The most likely way for them to be there is that she wrote them.”
“You keep your office locked, right?” Syd asked me.
I nodded. “Every night.”
Dennis shook his head. “Hold on, Syd. Oleg, you told me you backup every day, right?”
“Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”
“Then I want to know what day each of these documents appeared in our backups.”
Oleg pulled out his phone and barked a few instructions to one of his guys. “Yes, day by day for each file in the darkhorse folder we found.” He hung up. “It’ll take a few minutes.”
“Then we wait,” Dennis said.
