Albany, NY – INVESTIGATORS for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the state inspector general weren’t given potentially crucial evidence – private e-mails from top aides to Gov. Spitzer – related to the explosive Troopergate probe.
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“It’s a huge gap in the investigation,” conceded a source close to both investigations.
Cuomo’s probers, who eventually produced an explosive report showing top Spitzer aides used the State Police in a plot to destroy the career of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer), allowed the governor’s legal counsels to decide what “relevant” e-mails would be turned over as part of the investigation.
Those lawyers – who instructed top Spitzer aides, including the governor’s chief of staff, Richard Baum, and communications director, Darren Dopp, not to cooperate with Cuomo’s investigators – turned over a small number of scandal-related e-mails from official state e-mail addresses, not personal ones, sources said. [nypost]