Alton Maddox: Sweeping Powers of Gov. Paterson
[David] Paterson is skating on thin ice. He is sitting on exculpatory evidence which will bust the [Tawana] Brawley case wide open and implicate Mario Cuomo, Robert Abrams, Rudolph Giuliani and Eliot Spitzer. Instead, Paterson has chosen to be the gatekeeper. Since the Brawley case is supposed to be a “hoax,” what is the reason for hiding the file? This is a major contradiction. Because of fear, no one will publicly defend Tawana. For Blacks, New York is worse than Saudi Arabia.