Just as news settles that former Governor Eliot Spitzer was personally involved in trying to bring down rival State Senator Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, the Albany DA's office probably won't prosecute anyone in the Troopergate mess.
Not only will former Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp, who leaked information about Bruno to the Times Union back in July, not face perjury charges, it also looks like Attorney General Andrew Cuomo knew about Spitzer's plan to use the state police records on Bruno "months before Bruno's records were released"! A Cuomo aide says Dopp only mentioned smear-Bruno plan in an "innocuous" way."
It's unclear how Bruno feels about no one being charged or Cuomo's "knowledge." The septuagenarian, who has his own problems, told the Post he was happy the "truth" about Spitzer's involvement emerged, but referred to Albany DA David Soares's initial report that Spitzer was not involved, "It's just a total cover-up."
The NY Times has a new Spitzer editorial today--"With each revelation about the way New York’s former governor, Eliot Spitzer, operated while in office, our disappointment with the man and his methods grows" --but tries to remind readers that Spitzer's attempts at other reforms were important. But the Post's editorial just rails at "Eliot's Other Whores," Albany DA David Soares, and even the Times Union.
