Albany County DA: We Wanted Spitzer
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lbany County District Attorney David Soares is appearing tonight on Capital Tonight, which airs on Time Warner Cable Channel 9, to discuss his report Friday that found former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was closely involved in trying to smear Republican foe Joe Bruno.
Soares said he gave Spitzer’s former communications director Darren Dopp immunity so he could focus his investigation on whether Spitzer initially lied when Spitzer said he wasn’t involved in the plot.
“Darren Dopp was not the person who, in my opinion, who was the person who should be prosecuted in this instance,” Soares says in the interview. “Darren Dopp provided us with information that would have allowed us to pursue the governor of the state of New York and that is what we did.”
But Soares has been heavily criticized for not pursuing Spitzer in his first report on Troopergate in September. Then Soares defended Spitzer and said Spitzer had nothing to do with attempts by aides to comply travel documents on Bruno’s use of state aircraft.
Now, Soares said he can’t pursue Spitzer because Spitzer is no longer a public official.
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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. 
