(via Instapundit) I specifically said that I wasn’t going to be doing any more updates on Paterson unless something else possibly criminal came up, and sure enough, another possible abuse of power pops up this morning.

March 19, 2008 — ALBANY - An attractive Olympic gold-medalist says she had a close personal relationship with Gov. Paterson earlier this year - during which time she recorded a series of secret telephone conversations with him.

Track-and-field athlete Diane Dixon, of Brooklyn, also told The Post that she had received a private message yesterday morning from Paterson, asking if she was speaking with the media.

Dixon, 43, said Paterson, 53, was “mostly responsible” for getting her a badly needed job earlier this month with the city Department of Education in Crown Heights’ District 17.

The job pays in the range of $48,000 to $65,000 a year, records show.

“I’m a single mom with a child. I need this job,” said Dixon, who grew up on Carroll Street in Crown Heights and won medals in the 4×400-meter relay at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.  [...]

Dixon, in a second anxious call to The Post yesterday, pleaded to “please just keep me out of this” and said she planned to destroy the tapes.

“I know one thing. I’m going to destroy them. I don’t want no part of this,” she continued.

Asked about her earlier claims of being close to Paterson, Dixon responded, “Don’t you go there. Don’t go there. He and I were just friends. It’s all a joke. Just a joke.”

So what was their connection? We may never know if she got spooked and destroyed her tapes, but if she got on the payroll because of their undefined “close relationship” …

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