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SPIN CYCLE: Ex-LIPA chief may win this power play

The resignation of New York Power Authority's chief executive appears related, in some measure, to an uproar over the agency's former inspector general, who's the focus of a widely publicized state-police probe headed by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Insiders expect Roger Kelley's Aug. 1 departure as the authority's president to clear the way for Gov. David A. Paterson to tap Richard Kessel,...

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