Paterson To Pay Back Campaign
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Under scrutiny for his campaign expenditures when he was apparently having an affair, Gov. David Paterson has agreed to pay back his campaign for a few hotel stays in Manhattan in which he doesn’t recall the purpose of the stay.
Paterson’s campaign account has been dissected by reporters all week after he admitted to having affairs with “several women” between 1999 and 2001 when he was in the state Senate. Paterson said at the time that he couldn’t recall if he used his campaign account for some of the trysts.
Yet now he has agreed to pay for the cost of two nights at a Manhattan hotel that he billed the campaign instead of his personal account.
Here’s more from the AP:
NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. David Paterson is reimbursing his campaign for the cost of two nights at a Manhattan hotel that had been charged to his campaign credit card.
However, the lawyer for Paterson’s campaign, Henry Berger, said Friday: “It does not appear that there were improper expenditures.”
Berger said at a Manhattan news conference that the check has been written to Friends of David Paterson but has not yet been deposited.
The attorney provided reporters with copies of expenses going back to Paterson’s state Senate campaign in 2002.
The bills from the Quality Inn on Broadway were for $103.87 in December 2002, and for $149.17 in September 2003.
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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. 
