By Post Staff Report. Dicker broke the story that the State Police β at the direction of then-Gov. Now the sordid details are on the front pages of the Times. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo certainly came close to the real story. His bombshell report just weeks after the scandal broke concluded that key Spitzer aides had the State Police cook up documents indicating that Bruno used state resources for political trips. Cuomo also concluded that Team Spitzer then lured a credulous newspaper, The Albany Times-Union, into using the documents to smear Bruno.
In contrast to Soares, Cuomo managed to find all this out, even though Dopp and Baum refused to answer any of his questions. Unlike Spitzer, however, the Times-Union remains standing β meaning Soares still has to curry favor with his patron.
Soares, in fact, needs to find the courage to lay out all the details. Spitzer himself may be gone, but a full Dirty Tricks accounting still needs to be made. Read Next.
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