Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced criminal charges against one former and one current employee of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for using their positions to gain access to confidential tax information in order to benefit their friends. According to the complaint, Susan Mackey, 50, of Curtis Drive in Castleton, repeatedly accessed confidential tax records of a friend’s ex-husband, so that her friend could use that information against her ex-husband in family court proceedings. Mackey was a thirty-year Tax Department employee before her resignation in October 2008. In a separate complaint it is alleged that, Diane Buehler, 48, of Stanek Road in Schenectady, instructed an employee to delete more than $3,500 in penalties owed by a colleague’s boyfriend to the State of New York. To cover her tracks, Buehler drafted a bogus complaint letter from her colleague’s boyfriend, and had her colleague send the letter back to her through inter-office mail. Buehl...