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Article: Rogue unit claims denied; State Police officials say alleged political espionage teams never existed.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2008
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Byline: BRENDAN J. LYONS - Senior writer
The State Police never had a "renegade unit" within the agency that engaged in political espionage against elected leaders or public office candidates, according to interviews with several current and former State Police officials.
The president of the agency's Police Benevolent Association and three former State Police superintendents - Thomas Constantine, James W. McMahon and Wayne Bennett - all question the validity of that assertion in recent published reports.
That position was bolstered by an Associated Press article on Saturday that, citing unnamed sources in the Pataki and Spitzer ...