Albany, NY – DA Soares: Gov. Spitzer Broke No Law In Troopergate Scandal.

Albany, NY – Albany County District Attorney David Soares has found no criminality in his review of the Troopergate scandal.

Moreover, the freshman prosecutor is weighing whether to include in his report a condemnation of the political atmosphere that drew his office into the matter, and a critique of what he is said to consider was a badly done investigation by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Soares on Monday said he would not comment on the findings, but a person familiar with the investigation said the district attorney has concluded that aides to Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer broke no laws in what a report by Cuomo described as a political scheme to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno.

Soares did say he plans to release his report within the next couple of weeks. He said he wanted to respect the process and was sticking to his goal of a “dispassionate” review of the matter.

“I don’t want to participate in the political theater,” said Soares, a Democrat who bucked the Albany County party establishment in 2004 to win a primary for the Democratic nomination. [timesunion]