By FREDRIC U. DICKER, State Editor
June 10, 2008
ALBANY - Fired Power Authority Inspector General Daniel Wiese, suspected of destroying e-mail and other records relating to the State Police Dirty Tricks Scandal, is himself demanding e-mails and other records documenting his dismissal.
Wiese's lawyer, Kevin Kitson, said yesterday that he had filed Freedom of Information requests for the records in advance of a possible lawsuit against the authority.
"We strongly believe that Dan Wiese was knowingly fired in violation of several of NYPA's own human-resources policies," Kitson said.
"Once NYPA provides us with our requested documentation, we will consider all applicable legal remedies."
An authority spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Wiese, 54, a former top State Police official who headed the security detail for former Gov. George Pataki, and a behind-the-scenes power in the State Police under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, was fired last month after The Post revealed that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was probing the apparent destruction of e-mails and other electronic records under Wiese's control.
Cuomo's probe, which was authorized by Gov. Paterson in early April, took on new urgency on May 15 after Gary Berwick, a Wiese protégé who followed him as head of Pataki's and Spitzer's security, committed suicide, leaving behind a note that mentioned Cuomo's ongoing probe.
Cuomo issued a report last July concluding that top aides to Spitzer had improperly used the State Police in a plot to damage state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
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