Accusations Flying Over IG Report
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- February
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Senate Republicans are coming out swinging over an Inspector General’s report today that found no criminal or ethical wrongdoing by a former top aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
The long-awaited report found that Spitzer’s then-top energy adviser, Steven Mitnick, mismanaged an overhaul of the Public Service Commission, but found no evidence that Mitnick threatened the job of Cheryl Buley, a member of the panel appointed by former Gov. George Pataki.
The report drew jeers from Republicans, who called the report a “whitewash.”
“It took the Inspector General, working closely with a Spitzer administration that she is supposed to be investigating in an independent fashion, a year to come up with a report that is nothing more than a whitewash and a cover-up for intimidation and abusive behavior on the part of the administration,” said John McArdle, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County.
“The report is another example of a strategy by Governor Spitzer and his top aides to try to run the clock on scandals in hopes that they will go away.â€?
Spitzer, however, appears satisfied with the results.
“The Inspector General found that Steve Mitnick did not violate any laws or engage in any ethical violations,� said Spitzer spokesman, Errol Cockfield. “We are pleased to have this matter resolved.�
You can read all 134 pages of the report here
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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. 
