When Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) announced there there’d be a press conference today, expectations were high that he was going to finally release that promised “authentic” police report. You know, the one that would disprove all those news accounts which said an officer was called to his house because he was knocking his wife around.
Alas, he’s not giving up the document. Instead, he’s starting his own investigation into who “leaked” the “false” records. From The Albany Times-Union:
E. Stewart Jones apologized to TU reporter Brendan J. Lyons, who is over at Jones’ office in Troy, saying he has no documents to release today.The news, Jones said, is that he has been hired by the Sweeney campaign to investigate who leaked police records related to the Dec. 2, 2005 911 call by GOP U.S. Rep. John Sweeney’s wife, Gaia/Gayle, that summoned State Police to a domestic incident at the couple’s Clifton Park home.
It’s not entirely clear, but it sounds as though Sweeney’s no longer contesting the integrity of the police reports cited in news accounts.
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