ALBANY (AP) - The state Public Integrity Commission finds
reasonable cause to charge four former state officials with misusing state police to discredit a political foe of former Governor Eliot Spitzer.

The commission found "insufficient record evidence" to charge anyone else, including Spitzer.

It is the first accusation of a violation of law in the political scandal that gridlocked state government for most of 2007.

The commission says former Spitzer aides Darren Dopp, Richard Baum and William Howard and former state police head Preston Felton
conspired to smear former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno by
releasing his travel records to the media.

Spitzer resigned March 12 after he was identified in a federal
prostitution investigation.

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