The other shoe has finally dropped:
Fred Dicker at the NY Post: [1]
November 12, 2007 — Gov. Spitzer [2]‘s former communications director, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal – including the governor’s own allegedly extensive knowledge of the plot to smear the Senate’s GOP leader, a well-placed source told The Post yesterday.
Dopp wanted now-demoted Spitzer homeland-security aide William Howard to join him in denying there was anything unusual in their months-long effort to use the State Police to gather evidence purporting to show Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) misused state aircraft for political purposes, said the source, who knows many of those involved in the scandal.
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“Darren made it clear to Howard and others that he wanted a story to be told that was different than the one that actually happened,” the source claimed. “His comments stunned some of those who heard it, because they didn’t want to lie.”
Dopp also insisted at another meeting that “the boss,” as he called Spitzer, had been kept fully informed “from the start” about the anti-Bruno effort, which dated back to the spring, the source said.
Such a claim, if true, would contradict Spitzer’s repeated insistence that he didn’t learn about the anti-Bruno plot until shortly before it became public – and had even made an unsuccessful effort to stop it.
And so now, the credibility of Spitzer is somewhat lower than that of a used spit dealer. It’s not the crime thatll get ya but the cover up, Spitz.
Hmmm. How does one remove a sitting governor from office, again?
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