By MARK HARRINGTON

While an attorney in his office last month sided with LIPA and Caithness in their refusal to disclose costs tied to a new Yaphank power plant, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli had already let the cat out of the bag.

That's because a public Web site called OpenBookNewYork.com already posted the $1.49-billion contract value of the plant along with hundreds of other contract costs for LIPA.

That appears to be news to Mark Schlosstein, a senior attorney in DiNapoli's office, who wrote to LIPA on Dec. 9 that the comptroller's office determined some cost figures requested by Newsday were "trade secrets" that if released would cause "substantial injury to both LIPA and Caithness' competitive positions."

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