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NY: Resignation Shields Spitzer From Criminal Prosecution

This former Democrat AGs self destruction is just about complete…

Soares said that Dopp was given immunity for his testimony, even though Dopp could have faced misdemeanor charges, such as offering a false instrument and making an apparently sworn false statement.Meanwhile, Spitzer is no longer in office and could not face criminal prosecution because he’s no longer a “public servant,” Soares said.

As a result, Soares never brought the case to a grand jury, and instead released a report on his own findings — a rare move for a prosecutor.

“It is my hope that the findings released in this report satisfy the questions surrounding the timeline, facts and sequence of events that have become known as ‘Troopergate,'” Soares said in a statement.

The disclosures in the report lend new insight into the Spitzer-Bruno battle that dominated most of Spitzer’s short-lived 14 months in office.

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