Albany, NY – Gov. Paterson last night authorized Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to launch an unprecedented criminal probe of the State Police in the wake of The Post’s report that a renegade unit may have compiled damaging personal information on Paterson and other top state officials.
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The extraordinary authorization – contained in a letter from the governor to Cuomo – grants the attorney general full subpoena power to call witnesses and obtain documents in what is expected to be a wide-ranging investigation of the State Police and its activities. [NYpost]