Pataki and Spitzer announce anti-terrorism bills

Associated Press | May 30, 2005


	George Pataki

Governor George Pataki and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer introduced a series of bills Monday that would give police new ammunition to go after suspected terrorists.

The proposed bills would, among other things, create the crime of agricultural adulteration to protect the state's agriculture industry from terrorist attack.

The legislation also would establish the crime of cyber-terrorism


	Eliot Spitzer

and strengthen the crime of impersonation to include posing as a pilot or other aviation workers.

Pataki and the Legislature, particularly the Democrat-led Assembly, have had a hard time reaching agreements on anti-terrorism initiatives in the past.

However, in the days immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks, lawmakers did approve a package of anti-terrorism bills that created six new penal law offenses for people who commit terrorist acts.

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