ALBANY—The Commission on Public Integrity's decision to fine Darren Dopp $10,000 for his role in the ‘Troopergate' affair doesn't go far enough, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno said through a spokesman.
"The Commission on Public Integrity has concluded that, while working for Elliot Spitzer, Darren Dopp joined with and used the media Read More
The Troopergate report (pdf) that came out on Friday has some great back-room gossip between Eliot Spitzer and one of his top aides, Rich Baum, about a Times story.
On the morning of July 1, Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Baum exchanged e-mails about a Nicholas Confessore story that came out that day, which was Read More
Lobbyist James Featherstonhaugh, as a result, expects Paterson's transition to be smoother than Eliot Spitzer's.
Featherstonhaugh said, Read More
After hearing that Republican Majority Leader Joe Bruno’s conference subpoenaed Eliot Spitzer’s top aides, Rich Baum and Darren Dopp, State Senator Tom Duane offered the following piece of advice: go see a shrink. In a telephone conversation just now, Duane told me, "I think Senator Bruno’s feelings were hurt. I can understand that. Read More
Eliot Spitzer's top aides Rich Baum and Darren Dopp were subpoenaed by the state Senate Republicans. The subpoena to Baum, Spitzer's secretary, is for documents, emails and information. The one issued to Dopp, Spitzer's director of communications, is for him to testify before a Senate Committee on October 29th.
Both men played prominent roles in Read More
Here’s what state Inspector General Kristine Hamann just said about the notion of a conflict of interest in her investigation into Spitzer aide Rich Baum, who she reports to: "You might want to know the federal inspector general, Glenn Fine, who reports to Alberto Gonzales, is investigating Alberto Gonzales." She later said any investigation into Read More
A law professor testifying in an Albany hearing said of the inspector general who investigated the Spitzer administration that "perhaps she should have referred it" to the attorney general. The professor, Michael Hutter of Albany Law, later opted not to get more specific than that about the actions of Inspector General Kristine Hamann, saying, "I Read More
The state Senate Investigations Committee just announced they’ll have their second public hearing on Thursday, September 6 in Albany. And scheduled to appear there is the Inspector General herself, Kristine Hamann, who has come under fire for not producing a report of her investigation into Eliot Spitzer’s office, nor announcing she had a conflict of Read More
The New York Law Journal is reporting that the lawyer retained by Eliot Spitzer’s top aide, Rich Baum, is Steven F. Reich. Reich is a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Philips, LLP, which currently employs Spitzer’s onetime electoral opponent John Faso. According to the Law Journal, Reich will represent Read More
Here are transcriptions of two sworn statements from Spitzer aides Darren Dopp and Richard Baum about the Bruno affair that the governor's office just sent to us.
"I received requests for information relating to the use of state aircraft by public officials from members of the media. In response to these requests, Read More
One of the most damaging elements of today’s report from Andrew Cuomo, I think, is an email from May showing two of Spitzer’s top aides, Rich Baum and Darren Dopp, discussing how to spread the Joe Bruno story to reporters. That is, just before any reporters had filed any Freedom of Information requests or made Read More
At a press conference following a meeting of the Financial Control Board in the governor’s office in midtown, Spitzer told reporters that his aides had misled him, and at the time he thought they had been acting appropriately. Asked about another aide -- his top adviser Rich Baum, his who was shown in Cuomo's report Read More
Carl Andrews is one of Governor Spitzer’s closest advisors, one of the highest-ranking African-Americans in the administration, and one of the only people on the second floor of the Capitol without a title. That last part may not be an accident. Mr. Andrews, a former State Senator, went to work for Mr. Spitzer in January, Read More
Bill Lipton, Ed Skyler, Rich Baum, Rodney Capel... These names (and precisely 31 others) can be found on the City Hall News list of "Rising Stars." It's not clearwhat the criteria were for making it, other than that the honoree be less than 40 years old. In any event, the young Manhattan Media publication Read More
