Investigation agency marks 50th year
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- May
- 7
A state agency that was in danger of being closed down last year is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Commission of Investigation, which released its 2007 annual report today, said it issued six public reports last year. Those include probes of cyber crimes against children, the Lloyd Harbor (Suffolk County) Police Department and the New York State Police/Onondaga County District Attorney’s response to an allegation of sexual assault by state troopers, and reports on the New York City and Suffolk County crime labs.
Last month, the commission announced that it was investigating the investigations of Troopergate, in which aides to now-former Gov. Eliot Spitzer were found to have worked with state police to release air travel records meant to damage the Democrat’s chief rival—Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County. Spitzer resigned in March after revelations he was involved in a prostitution ring.
Commission Chairman Alfred Lerner said in a statement at the time that “the commission is not investigating the events concerning Troopergate; more than enough investigations of the issues surrounding those events have taken or are taking place. Rather, the commission is investigating the investigations.” That includes probes undertaken by the Albany County district attorney, the state inspector general and the state Commission on Public Integrity.
The commission’s Web site is www.sic.state.ny.us. To see the 2007 annual report, go to www.sic.state.ny.us/Docs/Annual%20Reports/pdf/ar07.pdf .
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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. 
