{"id":4233,"date":"2011-05-11T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:56:43","slug":"breaking-adirondack-nature-conservancy-cleared-in-ag-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/11\/breaking-adirondack-nature-conservancy-cleared-in-ag-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking:  Adirondack Nature Conservancy cleared in AG probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Brown at the <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/out-takes\/2011\/05\/11\/nature-conservancy-cleared-in-land-inquiry\/\">Adirondack Explorer magazine<\/a> is reporting this afternoon that a probe by the NY Attorney General&#8217;s office has cleared the Adirondack Nature Conservancy in its land deals with the state Conservation department.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe were happy to cooperate with the investigation, and we are  pleased with the outcome,\u201d said Connie Prickett, a spokeswoman for the  conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>New York State Assistant Attorney General Rachel Doft wrote the conservancy\u2019s lawyer last week to say the investigation is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nature Conservancy complied with all relevant laws, regulations  and policies in connection with those transactions,\u201d Doft said in the  letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/15539\/dec-nature-conservancy-land-deal-in-clinton-county-draws-new-scrutiny\">A probe began last April<\/a> after critics of Adirondack land deals, including Fred Monroe head of the Adirondack Local Government Review Board, suggested that the DEC might be overpaying for land owned by the Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>Claims about &#8220;sweetheart&#8221; deals were widely trumpeted by Albany-based conservative talk radio host Fred Dicker.<\/p>\n<p>Dicker&#8217;s reporting was later l<a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/512290\/Lobbying-via-the-Post.html\">ambasted in an editorial in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes as green groups are hoping to finalize other big conservation deals, including the Finch, Pruyn and Follensby projects.\u00a0\u00a0 NCPR will have more on this story tomorrow morning during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Brown at the Adirondack Explorer magazine is reporting this afternoon that a probe by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}