Lawmaker says Troopergate tarnished officials’ reps
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State Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan, R-Newburgh, issued a statement saying that two state officials—the state inspector general and the inspector general of the New York State Power Authority—he thinks “are in the wrong line of work” in light of recent revelations on Troopergate, a scandal in which now-former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was found to have urged his aides to collect and release information about the use of state aircraft by Spitzer’s chief rival—Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County.
According to Kirwan:
 —Dan Wiese, inspector general of the state Power Authority, invoked the 5th Amendment while a Colonel with State Police when testifying before a federal grand jury
and his name is swirling in the Troopergate scandal. That “has effectively
disqualified him from any further ‘service’ to this state.
—State Inspector General Kristine Hamann, is not qualified to continue in her position because “her partisanship during Troopergate has tarnished that office almost beyond repair.”
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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. 
