Soares asks Paterson for ‘Troopergate’ documents
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“The public has expressed great interest in this matter and we believe the people of the State of New York and the County of Albany have a right to a full airing of the events surrounding this case,’‘Assistant District Attorney Linda Griggs said in a letter to Paterson dated Monday.
Soares has been investigating since last August whether any laws were broken by a plot by former Spitzer administration officials to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno by gathering and releasing information about his state-funded travels.
Paterson’s top aide, Charles O’Byrne, today asked Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for an opinion about whether Paterson can release the information.
Cuomo is working to set up a meeting with Soares, the Commission on Government Integrity and the Senate Investigations Committee to resolve the issue, Cuomo spokesman John Milgrim said.
Soares wanted an answer by 5 p.m. today, but no meeting was held before then.
It was unclear why Soares sees such urgency in getting the records. Spokeswoman Heather Orth wouldn’t comment, other than to say that Soares hopes to issue his “Troopergate’’ report by the end of the month.
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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. 
