NYT publishes the real exposé about NY governor Paterson. It ain't pretty.

[kpete]

NYT publishes the real exposé about NY governor Paterson. It ain't pretty.
by John Aravosis (DC) on 2/24/2010 09:22:00 PM


From the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/nyregion/25paterson.html?emc=na

Last fall, a woman went to court in the Bronx to testify that she had been violently assaulted by a top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson, and to seek a protective order against the man.

In the ensuing months, she returned to court twice to press her case, complaining that the State Police had been harassing her to drop it. The State Police, which had no jurisdiction in the matter, confirmed that the woman was visited by a member of the governor’s personal security detail.

Then early this month, days before she was due to return to court to seek a final protective order, the woman got a phone call from the governor, according to her lawyer. She failed to appear for her next hearing on Feb. 8, and as a result her case was dismissed.

Many details of the governor’s role in this episode are unclear or in dispute, but the accounts presented in court and police records and interviews with the woman’s lawyer and others portray a brutal encounter, a frightened woman and an effort to make a potential political embarrassment go away.

more:
http://www.americablog.com/2010/02/nyt-publishes-real-expose-about-ny.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. Paterson has been a huge disappointment. I wish he'd just go away. nt

[lordcommander]

2. He is going to get smoked by Cuomo come September n/t

[xchrom]

3. Patterson is a millstone we don't need right now. Nt