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His Aura Faded, Spitzer Faces Bolder Enemies and a Threat to His Agenda
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| Contributor | CBlock941 |
| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jul 24, 2007 08:34am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ALBANY, July 23 — Nearly seven months ago Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared he would “change the ethics of Albany.”
But yesterday Mr. Spitzer was reduced to apologizing for a scheme that seemed straight out of the political playbook he pledged to rewrite.
A report by the attorney general’s office, which concluded that Mr. Spitzer’s aides improperly used the State Police to try to tarnish a political foe, documented a series of damning e-mail messages, conflicting accounts and abuses of power among the governor’s top staff members.
It read like something Mr. Spitzer, a crusading attorney general who built a reputation as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” before being elected governor last year, could have assembled in his pursuit of corporate malefactors or greedy chief executives.
More significantly, the report has emboldened Mr. Spitzer’s enemies and threatens to derail his entire legislative agenda, starting with one of his major objectives: overhauling Albany’s notoriously lax ethics. |
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