Morning briefing
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer aide Darren Dopp said he’s not going to fight a subpoena seeking every e-mail he has written since Jan. 1, a reversal from his previous stance. Dopp, the governor’s communications director, was suspended for his involvement in a scheme to discredit Spitzer’s lead political rival, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County.
Meanwhile, Dopp’s lawyer is accusing former GOP strategist Roger Stone of concocting the whole Spitzergate scandal.
Some Senate Republicans have been getting free rides on an aircraft tied to an executive training organization near Albany.
The head of the state Lobbying Commission, which closes its doors next Friday, gives his cell phone number and the name of his new firm—David M. Grandeau and Associates—in a farewell e-mail on the agency’s Web site. The department’s functions are being combined with those of the Ethics Commission to form a new Commission on Public Integrity.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has introduced new state rules requiring disclosure on the use of intermediaries by investment firms that do business with the pension fund as an investigation into former Comptroller Alan Hevesi continues.
Mortgage brokers and loan officers will have to undergo criminal background checks and training in New York due to growing concern about mortgage fraud.
Here’s more on former Gov. George Pataki’s new gig at the United Nations.
In Putnam County, a ban on doughnuts and other donated baked goods at a senior center lead to a protest yesterday by sweet-toothed senior citizens.
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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. 
