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Empire Development chief quits
Spitzer pick submits resignation

By JAMES M. ODATO, Capitol bureau
Monday, March 17, 2008
ALBANY -- Patrick Foye, the co-chairman of Empire State Development Corp., is leaving his job.
     
In a letter dated Sunday, Foye, who came in with Gov. Eliot Spitzer and focused on downstate development, said it's time for him to return to the private sector. He ran the United Way of Long Island before joining the Spitzer administration. Foye told his staff he will leave at incoming governor David Paterson's convenience. The state's Urban Development board would choose his replacement.
Dan Gundersen, the co-chairman for upstate, isn't leaving. He picked up a $27,500 raise last summer, making him a higher-paid executive than Foye, although Foye seemed to have more to do with Spitzer than Gundersen.