salon removed the story from its website and said that leopold had plagiarized text from the "ft", but the article remains in the nexis archives. leopold said he had slightly misquoted the email, which should have read "close a bigger deal. hide the loss before the 1q". white denied sending the email in a letter he sent to "the new york times", and when salon's editors contacted leopold's source, the source denied speaking to him. "the village voice" reported, "obviously, leopold made mistakes, but it's not at all clear they justify a full repudiation of the story or a revocation of his journalistic license. as paul krugman told the "voice", 'everything else in that story checked out. the substance of his reporting was entirely correct. commenting on the case, kerry lauerman of "salon" said that "leopold definitely represents the dark side of the web ... he became this sort of hero for throngs of people online".