New York Post Editorial
Just two months ago, Gov. Paterson de putized Attorney General Andrew Cuomo finally to get to the bottom of the Troopergate scandal. No mean feat.
Indeed, now it turns out that Albany DA David Soares had yet another trick up his sleeve in what can only be termed a whitewash of the affair.
Late last Friday, Soares said that he was going to make public the transcripts of interviews vital to Cuomo’s probe.
But then it was reported that the DA had secretly granted a series of “limited waivers” in which he promised the interview subjects he wouldn’t make their testimony public.
Now, the head of the State Committee on Open Government says Soares had no legal right to grant any such waivers - which speaks to the DA’s somewhat loose grasp of the law.
But expect at least two beneficiaries of the waivers - top Spitzer lawyers Sean Patrick Maloney and David Nocenti, who were up to their ears in Troopergate and who now (oddly) work for Paterson - to defend their position in court.
This would be their right, of course.
But Paterson needs to make it clear that if they choose to exercise it, it won’t be as employees of his administration.
Either they accede to an immediate release of their full Troopergate testimony, or they can return to the private practice of law.
