News You Can Use: The Cooperation Agreement.

Veteran New York reporter Fredric U. Dicker has details on a cooperation agreement in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s political corruption agreement. Dicker broke the story in his must-read Monday column in the New York Post. The agreement is between law enforcement and longtime insider Todd Howe.

The first insider to flip often gets the best deal. Howe, according to Dicker, has been feeling ill-used by his close associates in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration.

Bharara’s convictions in the corruption probe he revived after Cuomo shut it down include the former speaker of the Assembly, Democrat Sheldon Silver, and the former Senate leader, Dean Skelos, a Republican.