Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has "sharply escalated" his probe of lawyers allegedly larding school board pensions, Newday's Bob Kessler reports here.
As a first-term AG, Cuomo has certainly ratcheted up his task list.
Just based on what's been announced so far, he's got investigations going into: potential misuse of state police for political purposes; insider middlemen who invested state pension dollars; circumstances surrounding the fatal fire at the former Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan; conflicts of interest involving student-loan operations, bank mortgages, you name it.
It'll be interesting to see how much depth each of these efforts achieves and compare them to the portfolio of his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer.
UPDATE: There is also this dimension: Cuomo probing town and village governments as well as school districts.
UPDATE: And as commenter Jim points out below, Cuomo in January was announced as taking on a role as prosecutor in the explosive Tankleff murder case. Here is how it was reported at that time.
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What about the proble into the Martin Tankleff case?