Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed Catherine Leahy Scott to serve as the state’s inspector general. Scott, who had been serving as acting inspector general since February 2012, is a former first deputy inspector general, assistant attorney general, first assistant district attorney in Columbia County and assistant public defender. Before entering the public sector, Scott, a 1985 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, had a solo private practice in Columbia County.
In a statement, Cuomo said that for the past 14-months Scott "has been running the inspector general’s office with integrity and impeccable results." According to the administration, under Scott’s leadership the office’s achievements include investigating a state employee who stole nearly $1 million in federal rent subsidies earmarked for low-income families, probing the destruction of evidence at a Monroe County crime lab and leading a probe that resulted in the indictment of a non-profit agency director on bribery charges.
