AG: NYPA e-mails erased, conduct “extremely troubling”
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office is investigating the State Police, released a letter today that demands copies of e-mails for a New York Power Authority employee he said were deleted the day the probe was announced last month. The letter was sent yesterday.
Information the Attorney General’s Office received in response to subpoenas from NYPA showed that some e-mails were erased from the Blackberry of Daniel Wiese, NYPA’s inspector general (currently on paid leave) and a former state trooper.
“This destruction took place on April 1, 2008, the day this investigation was announced in the media. In addition, it appears that NYPA’s IT (information technology) system deleted many past e-mails on Wiese’s computer system. These e-mails are relevant to this investigation. Undoubtedly, you appreciate the seriousness of this extremely troubling conduct,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to Roger Kelley, president and CEO of NYPA.
Cuomo, at the request of Gov. David Paterson, is looking into whether there has been political interference in the running of the State Police. In the Troopergate scandal last year, aides to now-former Gov. Eliot Spitzer worked with the State Police to release information on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno’s use of state aircraft. Bruno, a Republican, was Spitzer’s chief rival.
The attorney general is demanding back-up copies of e-mails for Wiese and for two other NYPA staffers, Lori DiMichelle and Albert Swanson.
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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. 
