US EditionFormer CT chief state's attorney Colangelo fined in ethics case
CONNECTICUT, AUG 4 – Richard Colangelo Jr. agreed to pay a $7,000 fine without admitting wrongdoing after ethics officials found probable cause he hired a state official's daughter to secure pay raises.
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Former CT chief state's attorney Colangelo fined in ethics case
State ethics officials have fined Richard Colangelo Jr., Connecticut’s former chief state’s attorney, $7,000 for allegedly hiring the daughter of former state deputy budget director Konstantinos Diamantis in an effort to secure raises for himself and other state prosecutors. The Office of State Ethics announced the settlement with Colangelo on Monday, more than three years after Colangelo retired from state service following an investigation int…
Former Chief State's Attorney agrees to $7,000 ethics settlement
Former Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney and head of the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) Richard Colangelo has agreed to pay $7,000 to settle an ethics complaint. The complaint alleges that in 2020, Colangelo hired the then-Deputy Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) Kosta Diamantis’ daughter to be an executive assistant in the DCJ so that Diamantis would campaign for Colangelo and several senior DCJ attorneys to get raise…
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