Dopp fails to comply with subpoena
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- October
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 Former Spitzer Communications Director Darren Dopp, who earlier had promised to cooperate with a state Senate investigation of the use of State Police to gather information on Spitzer’s chief political rival, failed to provide information to a Senate panel today, as he earlier promised he would.
 Dopp’s lawyer, Terrence Kindlon, today sent a letter to the Senate Investigations Committee saying that the information the panel was seeking was “privileged and confidential.’’
  A spokesman for committee chairman, Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira, pointed out that not complying with a subpoena from the Legislature is a Class A misdemeanor.
 The panel is looking at whether any laws need to be changed in the wake of Dopp and other administration officials gathering information on the travels of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and releasing it to the media.
Dopp, 48, a Binghamton-area native, was suspended from his state job in July. He recently started working for a top Albany lobbying firm.
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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. 
