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New NY Gov Admits Affair

Paterson and wife were both unfaithful for years

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 18, 2008 5:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – David Paterson, who succeeded Eliot Spitzer as governor of New York yesterday, has his own history of extramarital relations. He and his wife Michelle admitted in a joint interview with the New York Daily News that they were unfaithful during a rocky period in their... Read full story »

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