ALBANY – Politics tainted the actions of top state police brass, but Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s 18-month probe of the department found no proof of a so-called “rogue unit” or wrongdoing by rank-and-file troopers, Mr. Cuomo said in a report released yesterday.
“Importantly, our fundamental finding is that there is no evidence that the rank and file of the State Police—the Troopers who are out there every day doing their job the way it should be done—acted in anything other than the public interest and maintained their integrity,” Mr. Cuomo wrote in a letter to Governor David A. Paterson, who requested the probe.
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