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Though Spitzer also copped to using Fields's jet to puddle-jump to campaign stops way back in May, his full reimbursement to Fields is for another series of flights for the governor and his wife to attend a fund-raiser Fields threw for them in July in Jackson Hole. So why wait so long — seven months — to report the trip? After Spitzer’s first private-jet PR kerfuffle, he vowed to change his policy and fully reimburse his carriers, but Fields attorney Edward Wallace says it took until December to get accountants and compliance lawyers to agree on the cost of the trips and send Spitzer the bill. Rachel Leon, of Common Cause, says of Spitzer’s tardy private jet disclosures, “You can’t really run on a reform platform under New York’s laws and raise $40 million and at the same time expect to stay entirely clean.” So it seems. —Geoffrey Gray
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