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54 for a graduate degree program, a benefit that had never existed for any mayor or elected official in the city’s history, according to an investigative report by the Crumbie Law Group.

54 for a graduate degree program, a benefit that had never existed for any mayor or elected official in the city’s history, according to an investigative report by the Crumbie Law Group.
Taxpayers reimbursed former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart $31,561.54 for a graduate degree program, a benefit that had never existed for any mayor or elected official in the city’s history, according to an investigative report by the Crumbie Law Group.
Waterbury Republican Mayor Joseph Santopietro was convicted in 1992 on 15 federal charges including bribery, fraud and theft of federal job training funds, and later convicted again in 2007 in a mob-related probe
Former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart used her taxpayer-funded credit card to fund a series of family birthday parties, logging bounce houses, party decorations, and catered food as “office supplies,” according to the Crumbie Law Group report.
Eight years after his first federal conviction, Rowland secretly worked on a 2012 Republican congressional campaign and conspired to hide his paid role by routing payments through a law firm
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