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The AG's report also reveals that State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett was the one who in the fall of 2006 ordered the removal of the original report into a December 2005 domestic violence report at the home of then-U.S. Rep. John Sweeney. The decision to amend the computer record allowed Sweeney, who was locked in a tight re-election race with Kirsten Gillibrand, to claim that the original report was false -- a statement he later admitted was untrue.

The report attributes Bennett's decision to "sanitize" the record on the Sweeney incident to fears that a State Police employee had leaked the original report to the press, including the Times Union. The AG's investigation failed to uncover who might have leaked the material.