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February 25, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
Paul DerOhannesian, a defense lawyer and former prosecutor in Albany County, said the case as reported so far is murky on whether Paterson could be accused of a crime.
“A phone call by itself is not tantamount to obstruction,” he said. “It depends on what was said and how it was received.”
Keith L. Wright, a Democratic state assemblyman from Manhattan, said he isn’t pushing Paterson on any course of action on whether to continue his campaign.
“I will say you have to keep your own counsel and if you think you are doing the right thing, you have to keep it moving,” Wright said. “There have been a lot of folks who asked him not to run or step down, and he has not budged.”
Paterson was lieutenant governor when his boss, Eliot Spitzer, resigned in a prostitution scandal.
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