State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash?
State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash?
In New York state, even as cabinet-level officials began to prepare an orderly transition by briefing Lt. Gov. David Paterson on key details of their components of the government in anticipation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer stepping down, criminal justice officials launched a preliminary inquiry into how the disgraced governor slipped his security detail while traveling, state sources told ABC News.
ABC News has learned that Spitzer routinely tried to push off the one or two state police officers who accompanied him out of town, suggesting to the troopers that they didn’t need to accompany him as he went to the gym or telling them he was going to turn in early.