Dinallo, Cockfield Out; Megna In
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- May
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Several staff changes today in the Paterson administration.
Paterson announced that Insurance Department Superintendent Eric Dinallo will resign in July to become a visiting professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dinallo came in with the Spitzer administration and worked with Spitzer in the attorney general’s office.
He’s rumored to be eyeing a run for attorney general if Andrew Cuomo decides to run for governor.
Also reportedly leaving the second floor is press secretary Errol Cockfield, a former Newsday bureau chief who also came in under Spitzer. He’s expected to move over to the governor’s intergovernmental affairs office.
And coming into the governor’s office is Robert Megna as budget director. He takes the $178,000-a-year job from Laura Anglin, who is resigning to head the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.
Megna had been commissioner of the state Department of Taxation and Finance. Jamie Woodward was named acting commissioner of the department; she had been executive deputy commissioner.
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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. 
It is about time that Paterson cleaned house and got rid of the dregs from Spitzer. There were, and still remain, many agendas and egos over in Albany that quite frankly are not working for the good of NY. This is a step in the right direction.
Furthermore, does anyone else see a conflict with Dinallo seeing opportunity in Cuomo’s potential departure to run against Paterson, his now former boss?