Posted at: 11/02/2009 5:51 PM
Updated at: 11/02/2009 5:53 PM
By: AP

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Review sought in gov's Yankees tickets

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A good-government group is calling for an ethics investigation into how New York Gov. David Paterson got his Yankees tickets for the first game of the World Series.

Paterson spokesman Peter Kauffmann says the Democrat received a free ticket from the Yankees, which the administration says has been common practice for governors at such events. Kauffmann says Paterson paid for tickets for his son and his son's friend and his staffer paid for his own at last week's World Series opening game. The tickets cost $425 each.

The New York Post reports that Paterson secretly solicited free tickets.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group says that if Paterson received special treatment the tickets could be a violation of the state's ban on gifts to officials.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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