Mr. Sherman had said Mr. Bryant's account was "highly unlikely, " Ms. Walker Hauer recalled.

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Cuomo and Hauer and top members of the governor's inner circle, including the state operations chief, Howard Glaser, who attended disaster training.

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The plan would make sure "all emergency personal at all levels of government across the state are better prepared for future disasters, " Mr. Hauer said.

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Mr. Bryant was a close friend of Ms. Walker Hauer's brother, and he told her that two of his friends killed Ms. Moxley, Ms. Walker Hauer said.

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He has served as deputy mayor and labor commissioner in New York City and is senior counsel with the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld.

FORBES: Leadership

On Friday, Mr. Skakel's current lawyers questioned Marjorie Walker Hauer, who grew up in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich where the Skakel and Moxley families lived during the 1970s.

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"The state was better prepared when Sandy hit than it had been for any past natural disaster, and the results on the ground back that up, " said Jerome Hauer, the commissioner of the New York Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.

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