The cover up goes deep… This gets more depressing everyday. Ya know the system is severely broken here in NY State and we all had high hope that Spitzer would take his reform attitude to the gov’s office with him. Well it appears that he took more than that with him. He brought with him the corruption that apparently he was accused of while he was in the AG’s office.

So much for anything changing for the good, he just makes things worse.

Secret E-Mails Could Hurt Spitzer’s Case In Probe
Reports Allege Aides Used Personal Accounts To Plot Against Bruno
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Albany: There are calls for Gov. Eliot Spitzer to finally come clean on the so-called “Troopergate” scandal. Published reports charge top aides to Spitzer communicated by private e-mail accounts that investigators knew nothing about.

Some lawmakers have been announcing their suspicions about the case, which charges two aides plotted to discredit Spitzer’s top Republican rival, Sen. Joseph Bruno.

“I think it’s pretty disingenuous that you can have two sets of e-mails,” said state Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn).

Reports say most of the e-mails came from personal accounts, and only a small number of scandal related e-mails from official state accounts were given to investigators.

“If you’re a corporation and you have two sets of books, believe me — if you don’t turn over one of those sets of books you’re in pretty big trouble,” Golden said.

Two new sets of investigations in the case are on the front burner: one with the State Ethics Commission and another with the Albany County District Attorney, who has subpoena power.

If there are private e-mails dealing with the Bruno case that weren’t turned over in the initial probe, that could prove problematic, especially if the e-mails contain crucial evidence.

“Why do you need two sets of e-mails? What is there to hide and to do government business on a personal e-mail? It tells me that it’s being done for a reason and that’s to hide those e-mails,” Golden said.

Pundits say the continuing scandal is really hurting Spitzer’s image as a reformer.