By Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — Gov. David Paterson said on Thursday morning that the latest resignation from his office was not “indicative of a bigger problem” in his administration and suggested that it was he — not the media — who first leaked news of his controversial conversation with the alleged victim of a top aide’s domestic abuse.
“I don’t want to go into it, but the person that informed others that there was such a conversation was me,” Paterson said on the John Gambling show when asked how the media knew of his involvement in aide David Johnson’s domestic violence case.
When a surprised Gambling clarified said, "You informed the news?" Paterson answered "Correct."
The governor said he had not yet spoken with the attorney general’s office regarding the case.
When questioned about an ongoing investigation into allegations that Paterson accepted free World Series tickets and then lied under oath about it, Paterson called it a “misunderstanding” and a “hurried investigation,” and said that he believed his innocence would be proven.
The governor also touched on the 9/11 terror trials during his hour-long conversation with Gambling, insinuating that he was the first one to say that the trials should not be held in Lower Manhattan but that other people had taken credit for the idea.
Paterson said that either a civil or military trial “would be fine with me” and said he believed that New York was “badly served by the federal government” in the wake of 9/11.
