This was the second report from Ms. Kaye on the governor’s behavior. The earlier one, which examined the handling of a domestic violence case involving a top aide, cleared Mr. Paterson of having done anything criminal, but found that he had made errors of judgment.

One of the odder passages in that report recounted how Mr. Paterson ordered his staff to draft a statement from the victim who reported the abuse to say that although her breakup with the aide was “not friendly, there was nothing acrimonious about our relationship or its ending.” The woman would not go along, because she said it was false.

When investigators asked Mr. Paterson whether he considered the statement accurate or inaccurate, he replied, “I would say it was neither.”

He did not clarify what something is, if it is neither accurate nor inaccurate.

Mr. Paterson has denied that he lied about the baseball tickets. On Friday, a spokesman for the governor referred all inquiries to Mr. Paterson’s attorney, Theodore V. Wells Jr. A spokeswoman for Mr. Wells was out of the office on Friday, and did not immediately return an e-mail.

Mr. Paterson’s debut onto the broad public stage in March 2008 gave the impression of a man willing to tell all, and then some. At a news conference the day after being sworn in as governor, following the sudden departure of Eliot Spitzer because of his sexual misadventures, Mr. Paterson owned up to having had extramarital affairs. He did, however, seem to have some trouble being consistent about the details.