
Four former Spitzer aides charged with "violating the state’s Public Officers Law"
Developing story out of New York based on an on-going investigation of aides to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. This scandal, involvinb former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, pre-dates the scandal that forced Spitzer's resignation:
The state Commission on Public Integrity filed its long-awaited report today on Troopergate and charged three former aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the former State Police Superintendent Preston Felton with violating the state’s Public Officers Law.
You can read the report here.
The commission’s 68-page report found that former Spitzer aides Richard Baum, Darren Dopp and William Howard, as well as Felton, violated sections of the Public Officers Law by conspiring to release travel records on the use of state aircraft by former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
Baum, Spitzer’s former chief of staff, and Howard, former department of homeland security assistant secretary, have reached settlement agreements with the commission. Dopp and Felton are fighting the charges.
Baum and Howard were charged with violating one count of the Public Officers Law; Dopp was charged with two counts, and Felton was charged with three counts.
Dopp faces up to a $10,000 fine on one of the counts, while Felton faces up to $10,000 on each of two counts, according to commission spokesman Walter Ayres.Spitzer was not charged.

