In switch, Dopp will comply with subpoena
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Darren Dopp, the aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer suspended from his job for his alleged role in having the State Police gather damaging information on a political rival of the governor’s, will not contest a subpoena seeking every e-mail he has sent and received since the first of the year, his lawyer said today.
“There will be no resistance to the subpoena,’’ said Dopp lawyer Terence Kindlon. “Darren and I have reconsidered the matter. The decision has been changed,’’ he said.
Kindlon said earlier this week that Dopp, Spitzer’s $175,000-a-year communications director, would try to block the subpoena, on the grounds that it was too broad.
But Kindlon said that move was his idea, and that Dopp, who hasn’t been available for comment, was all for providing everything that the state Ethics Commission has asked for.
The commission and Albany County District Attorney David Soares are probing whether Dopp and other aides to the governor violated laws or ethics rules in gathering information on the travels of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno. Spitzer has said he didn’t know what his aides were up to.
Kindlon said that Dopp, who has twice been interviewed by Soares’ office, hasn’t yet been asked to appear before the ethics panel.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
