"The court should reject this attempt to expand discovery," prosecutors wrote.

He said, the prosecutor wrote, that he was one of the investigators who would work on cases when other investigators "could not get results."

The court should not "turn state law on its head" by issuing a stay in what was essentially a closed criminal case, prosecutors wrote.

"He has provided important substantive information about the nature and the scope of public corruption on Long Island," the prosecutor wrote.

Mr. Murray, the prosecutors wrote, was 46 years old, married with two children.

The view was, "Dilution is the solution to pollution," prosecutors wrote.

So she had the prosecutor write her decision, the commission said.

"To this day, Bakker has not accepted responsibility for the offenses he committed," the prosecutors wrote.

Mr. Basciano failed it, prosecutors wrote yesterday in a separate letter to the court.

"These issues will continue to be presented to the court, and the people of the state deserve to have them resolved," the prosecutors wrote.