Troopergate Report Released
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- March
- 28
Here’s the link and Albany County District Attorney David Soares statement:
Report
“As a prosecutor, I am a servant of the law. Every action taken by this office is to determine whether a law has been broken and, if so, to hold the offending party accountable. During this investigation, we reviewed thousands of documents, interviewed key witnesses under oath and subpoenaed materials to a Grand Jury.
“As I have previously expressed, the people of Albany County and New York State have a right to a full airing of events surrounding this case. After careful consideration and advice from several legal experts including the Solicitor General, we are releasing our findings to the public.
“The report issued by my office today illustrates the process by which we have made our final legal conclusions. This process is not intended to make news happen, it is intended to further the goals of justice. These conclusions are based solely on the laws of New York State.
“Due to the terms of the limited waiver agreements executed by the District Attorney and the Executive Chamber, we are unable to release the complete analysis until privilege issues of first impression are resolved with former Governor Spitzer and Governor Paterson. Further, any materials obtained pursuant to grand jury subpoena are not included in this report.
“This report is not a review of ethics and this report is not a review of political behavior, it is a non-partisan dispassionate review of facts. The report contains the sum and substance of relevant facts uncovered during our investigation.
“It is my hope that the findings released in this report satisfy the questions surrounding the timeline, facts and sequence of events that have become known as ‘Troopergate’. Even more important to me, is that there have been thousands of taxpayer dollars spent on determining that crimes have not been committed. It is now up to our states political leaders to determine the best and most appropriate next steps.”

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. 







