Power Authority picks new top cop
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- December
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The state Power Authority today named a state Supreme Court judge who was defeated in his bid for re-election year as its top internal cop, replacing a controversial figure involved in the Troopergate scandal.
An authority panel named Anthony Carpinello, whose last day as a judge serving the Albany area is tomorrow, as the organization’s inspector general. If he passes a background check, he’ll assume his new duties – and the $187,000 annual salary – early next year.
The authority has been without an inspector general since last April 1, when former State Police Capt. Daniel Wiese was suspended. He was formally fired the next month. Wiese is being probed for what role, if any, he had as a state cop in the Spitzer administration’s alleged spying on state politicians. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating. Wiese has denied any wrongdoing.
The authority, which is owned by the state and based in White Plains, operates 18 electric-generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.
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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. 
