New York Gubernatorial Aide to Join Kirkland & Ellis

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Sean Patrick Maloney, the first deputy secretary to New York Governor David Paterson, resigned this week, effective at the end of the year. Maloney, who is openly gay, was a holdover from the Eliot Spitzer administration.

Maloney, a senior West Wing advisor to the Clinton Administration, will become a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he will join Michael Garcia, the Spitzer prosecutor.

Paterson has been a vocal supporter of LGBT issues in the past, but with gay marriage a contentious issue in the state Senate, community advocates are wondering how losing a top gay insiders in Albany will affect the community’s representation.

  

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On March 10, 2008, The New York Times reported that Spitzer was a client of a prostitution ring under investigation by the federal government. Two days later, he announced his resignation as governor of New York.

Via The New York Blade.