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Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 April 2008 09:17 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 23 April 2008 09:17
ALBANY — Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has hired a veteran federal prosecutor to head his investigation into whether state troopers have engaged in political interference with lawmakers.
Sharon McCarthy, who will serve as special counsel, was most recently a partner at Kostelanetz & Fink, a New York City firm that specializes, among other areas, in white-collar criminal and tax fraud defense.Previously, she spent more than a dozen years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was deputy chief of the Criminal Division under U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. She also headed the Violent Crimes Unit under U.S. Attorney James Comey.