Power Authority stops paying Wiese
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- May
- 7
The free ride is over, at least temporarily, for a controversial employee of the state Power Authority who has strong ties to former Govs. George Pataki and Eliot Spitzer.
The authority today put Daniel Wiese, 55, of Garrison, Putnam County, on unpaid administrative leave. He had been collecting his $181,701 salary as head of security for the agency since early April while not working as a probe continues into his possible involvement in a plot to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
Also today Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wrote a letter to the Power Authority demanding it help to locate backup documents from Wiese’s computer, which had been scrubbed before state probers seized it last month.
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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. 
