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State Liquor Authority Chairman Daniel Boyle has been replaced by an Assistant Attorney General from Buffalo named Dennis Rosen, Governor Paterson's office announced late yesterday. Paterson's press release did not explain the reasons for replacing Boyle, a former Syracuse police chief with a reputation as a straight shooter, but the casual observer might assume it has something to do with the scandal engulfing the SLA's Harlem office, where employees are accused of soliciting bribes to expedite the license application process. But Boyle's dismissal likely has its roots in last fall's very public tangle with an aide to Governor Paterson, former State Senator Carl Andrews. You'll recall that Boyle accused Andrews of trying to "intimidate" him into voting to renew the liquor license for the felonious Cipriani family. The other two SLA Commissioners were able to overrule Boyle to approve the license (and were coincidentally given some nice state-owned cars around the same time), but Boyle went to the Post, and Andrews was forced to step down in the subsequent uproar. Now, it seems, it's payback time.
Paterson Ousts SLA Chairman Without Explanation
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was there really someone under the subway at times square (42nd) like half and hour ago?
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That doesn't sound good.
He probably wasn't sharing or playing well with others.
Boyle was a straight shooter, a reformer, a former police Internal Affairs investigator, who rooted out corruption in the SLA.
When Carl Andrews was then-Lt.Governor Paterson's aide in 2006, he put pressure on the Boyle and other SLA commissioners to grant liquor licenses to his 'friends'.
Andrews is a product of the corrupt Brooklyn machine and close to jailed Brooklym Dem leader, Clarence Norman. He was so inept that his own constituents would not even re-elect him to the State Senate.
So what does Mr. Magoo do? Hires Andrews as his aide! The corruption soon follows.
Firing Boyle to avenge a creep like Andrews is the final nail in Paterson's coffin. This guy can't do anything right.
Time to start looking for some hack job working for the Harlem machine, Mr. Magoo. You ain't going back to Albany.