Dopp cooked up a false explanation for the investigation into Bruno, Cuomo concluded.

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Spitzer responded by suspending Dopp without pay for an "indefinite period" of not less than 30 days.

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Until recently the combo of Spitzer and Darren Dopp, his longtime spinmeister, has been a roaring success politically.

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Regulators left WorldCom out because "we did not find Grubman's public and private views were divergent, " says Darren Dopp, a spokesman for Spitzer's office.

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"The evidence will show blatant conflicts of interest, " Dopp said, referring to the alleged practice of compensating analysts for flattering the companies they cover in a bid to land investment banking deals.

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"The code of behavior never changes, " Dopp continued.

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Cuomo concluded that some of Spitzer's closest aides, including Dopp, the governor's press chief, improperly conspired with the state police to dig up dirt on political arch-rival Joseph Bruno, the Republican majority leader of the New York Senate.

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Spokesman Darren Dopp noted that the dropped charges were wholly unrelated to, and less serious than, the core charge of fraud that it had filed against Greenberg and Smith, mainly on the basis of risk transfer transactions with General Reinsurance , or GenRe, that allegedly misstated AIG's financial health to its shareholders.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other authorities are likely to file court documents within a few weeks outlining the laws they believe the Wall Street firms broke and offering evidence to support their claims, according to Darren Dopp , a spokesman for Spitzer's office (the SEC declined comment).

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