Former Troop B leader resigns from Liquor Authority
SARANAC LAKE - A former state police Troop B commander has resigned from his upper-level position at the state Liquor Authority following allegations that he misused his agency-issued car.
According to the Press-Republican newspaper, Peter Person, of Keeseville, resigned as director of New York City operations and assistant enforcement director last week, days after an article in the New York Post alleged he used a Liquor Authority vehicle for personal purposes, including commuting to work in Harlem from his home in Keeseville.
Person denies the allegations and told reporters his resignation was for political reasons, not because of the report.
"There is a lot more to this than everyone knows," he told the Press-Republican.
According to records obtained by the New York Post, Person had logged monthly mileage of 3,000 to 4,700 traveling between his Harlem office and Keeseville home.
Person was found to have charged gas and maintenance expenses to his state-issued credit card. As a supervisor, he was not required to do field work, although this is among his reasons for the high mileage.
Person's annual salary at the Liquor Authority is $74,210, and he also has a waiver to collect his state police pension from his 25 years in the department.
A Liquor Authority spokesperson was not immediately available for comment this morning.
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03-24-09 10:01 AM
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Not required to do field work, but he did it anyways? How else can he make sure businesses that compete with his upline, lose their liquor licenses? When you have a politicized justice system, people like Mr. Person oftentimes use their authority to further their friends businesses, and shut down the competitors. Disposable income elects politicians, and if his liquor dispensing friends are the only ones with licenses, they are the only ones with free speech. Money equals free speech, no money means no voice. Mr. Person's political appointment was designed to make it so. If they really want to investigate, they should investigate the "field work" he did, to make sure he wasn't using the liquor authority as a partisan tool to disenfranchise honest businessmen.
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pishaloo
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03-24-09 9:38 AM
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contrary1....we didnt get HURUMMMMPPPPHHHH OTTA YOU! HURUMPH,HURUMPH. Make sure you wear your hat when you gas your car.
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contrary1
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03-24-09 8:58 AM
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Too bad he moved to an area where high level officials are expected to obey the law. If he stayed up here and hung around with Nancy Reich, he could have used a ComLinks car to go barhopping, for free without fear of repurcussions. It wasn't local officials who got the conviction on Ortloff, it was actual law-abiding out of towners who made the area safer for our children. This should serve as a lessen to all the ambitious wannabe politico's out there. Just because your friends allow you to get away with it up here, doesn't mean you'll be awarded amnesty for your crimes in other areas. In other areas, the bar association understands the need for equal enforcement. Up here their advocacy is so arbitrary and capricious, justice is dependant on societal capital and nothing more. Ain't that right Nancy Reich?
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vaulgarboatman
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03-23-09 12:58 PM
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Wow wonder who he knew to get that job not bad almost 75k on top of another 60k to 80k pension and just give it up theres more to this story.
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