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Cuomo duo runs amok

Senior aides to Gov. Cuomo are increasingly worried that the Moreland Act Commission named by the governor two months ago to investigate corruption in state government is getting out of control, The Post has learned.

Sources describe commission co-chair Kathleen Rice, the Nassau County district attorney and failed candidate for state attorney general in 2010, and executive director Regina Calcaterra as “loose cannons” directing the operations of what one called a “runaway commission.’’

“The concern is that Rice and Calcaterra may be more interested in getting publicity for themselves then they are in figuring out what’s behind the repeated cases of corruption,’’ said a Cuomo administration source.

Some aides to Cuomo were described as “furious’’ that a series of subpoenas were recently issued by the commission for campaign-finance records without any advance notice to the governor’s office.

“Some of the governor’s people are pulling their hair out because they don’t know what the commission is doing or what it’s going to do next,’’ said a source.

Last week, despite the behind-the-scenes tensions, Cuomo publicly declared that the commission could investigate him or anyone else in his administration if it decided it had reason to do so.

“Anything they want to look at they can look at,’’ Cuomo said.

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A top state Democrat yesterday said a Cuomo endorsement of Scott Stringer in the hotly fought contest against disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer could put Stringer over the top.

State Democratic Party co-chair Keith Wright, an assemblyman who also heads the Manhattan Democratic Committee, called the contest for city comptroller “tight’’ and said an endorsement by Cuomo, widely popular with Democratic voters, would give Stringer a significant boost.

“It always helps when you have the governor back you, and it would definitely help Scott. I think the governor wants to see Stringer win, and this is a close race,’’ Wright said.

Cuomo, who shares a mutual dislike with Spitzer dating back to the late 1990s, has been working aggressively behind the scenes on Stringer’s behalf, but has yet to go public.

“If the governor thinks his endorsement will put Scott over, he’ll give it,’’ said a Cuomo administration source.

While one poll last week showed Manhattan Borough President Stringer and Spitzer in a dead heat, most surveys have found Spitzer with a double-digit lead.

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Add the name of state Agriculture Commissioner Darrel Aubertine to the long list of senior Cuomo aides who departed the governor’s administration this year.

Aubertine will resign in the next few weeks, in part because he was “cut off” and “basically just told what he’s supposed to be doing,’’ said a Cuomo administration source.

Complaints about that sort of micromanagement of state agencies by the governor’s senior aides have become a widespread Cuomo administration complaint.