As if things weren’t bad enough for the beleaguered New York state government, at least four of his old cronies are facing disciplinary action over a smear campaign launched to discredit an opponent.
Four former officials of the Spitzer administration violated the state’s Public Officers Law when they sought to have the state police gather damaging information about State Senator Joseph L. Bruno’s travels on state aircraft last summer, according to a report released today by the State Commission on Public Integrity.
Two of the officials, Richard Baum, the former top aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and William Howard, a former public safety adviser to the governor, have already reached settlements with the commission.
Cleaning house and taking names should really be high on the agenda for Albany. Unfortunately, David Paterson is an old hand of the Spitzer administration, and will probably continue the tradition. How long will the citizens of New York allow their state government to run out of control?
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