Consultant denies he made threat

ALBANY - A prominent political consultant for the state Senate Republicans agreed to resign Wednesday after reports surfaced alleging he had made a threatening phone call to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's father.

Roger Stone, who in the 1970s worked on President Nixon's re-election effort and has also done work for Presidents Bush and Reagan, denied making the call.

Stone told The Associated Press he was “set up.” He said the phone number cited by Bernard Spitzer's lawyers is his, but the apartment is owned by a Spitzer fundraiser and someone else could have gotten inside to make the call or used technology to mimic his voice and number.