State inspector general stepping down
 Kristine Hamann, the state’s embattled inspector general, announced today she is resigning – another in the list of officials touched by the “Troopergate’’ scandal who is leaving state government.
Hamann, 55, a former longtime Manhattan prosecutor, got into trouble last year when she endorsed report from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo about aides to Eliot Spitzer trying to smear Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno while doing little investigating on her own.
Hamann, who is making $150,689 in her state job, plans to leave office on April 10. She started the job in February of 2007. No successor has been an
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Another budding lobbyist. And now that she has myriad contacts, a Pay Raise!
Spitzer and Cherkasky were colleagues in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. It is not incidental that Kroll was the firm that produced the report which said a threatening phone call to Bernard Spitzer “appeared to be from a telephone controlled by Roger Stone.” This is typical of the lengths to which Cherkasky will go for Spitzer.
Ed, who continuously insists upon confusing people by stealing my handle, returns after a long vacation. On this one, though, he is correct. Another lobbyist. Firms are surely already lining up. With her political connections, she could probably make a lot more elsewhere, but for anyone who doesn’t want to work much (as the short, jumbled article infers) lobbying in NY is a nice spot and it comes with some nifty expense benefits.