Official With Ties To Spitzer Faces Scrutiny

You may land in hot water when speaking to a reporter...or is it just the Spitzer connection? Maybe I am just tired, but so freakin what.

Daniel Wiese, a former State Police official, was put on paid leave after a report by the Albany County district attorney said that he had spoken to a reporter for The New York Times in July at Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s behest. During a telephone conversation with the reporter, Mr. Wiese backed the administration’s claim that the State Police had long held concerns about whether Joseph L. Bruno — the Senate majority leader and Mr. Spitzer’s chief adversary in Albany — had been inappropriately using state aircraft.