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New Investigation Commissioner Takes Early Steps to Establish Independence

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 12/3/18

Margaret Garnett, the incoming Commissioner of the Department of Investigation, will begin her tenure with the watchdog agency itself under heightened scrutiny.

Ms. Garnett, the state’s Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice and a former Federal prosecutor, starts on Dec. 10, following a tumultuous few months at the agency and just weeks after Mayor de Blasio fired her predecessor, Mark Peters, for what he called “abuse of power.”

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