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Connecticut State Senator Surrenders to US Marshals in Campaign Fraud Case: Feds A Democratic Connecticut state senator and a former Bridgeport Board of Education chairwoman surrendered to the U.S. Marshals Service and were charged with wire fraud in a bid to allegedly obtain tens of thousands of dollars in campaign grants, officials said. Dennis Bradley Jr., who was elected to the state Senate in 2018 and had served as the Democrat’s Deputy Majority Leader, and Jessica Martinez—his former ...

Officials: Sen. Dennis Bradley, Bridgeport BOE member Jessica Martinez charged in campaign fund scheme Tara ONeill, Ken Dixon, Daniel Tepfer May 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 State Sen. Dennis Bradley, D-Bridgeport, exits his arraignment on wire fraud charges in federal court in New Haven, Conn. on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Bridgeport Board of Education member Jessica Martinez exits her arraignment in federal court in New Haven...

The court reversed decisions by the State Elections Enforcement Commission and a Superior Court, which fined former Republican state Senate candidates Joe Markley and Rob Sampson for breaking election law in 2014 by spending public campaign grants on literature criticizing then Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Child care an allowable campaign expense? Pereira bill advances Julia Bergman FacebookTwitterEmail Candidate for Fairfield state representative Caitlin Clarkson Pereira comforts her daughter, Parker, 3, in her Fairfield home after Parker skinned her knee while going door to door in Fairfield, Conn. on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. Clarkson Pereira was denied her request to the State Elections Enforcement Commission to use her campaign funds to pay for child care.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connectic...

Unsuccessful 2018 Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Obsitnik is being fined $90,000 in connection with an investigation into whether he violated a state clean-election law when his campaign received a $1.3 million public financing grant and still benefited from more than $88,000 in spending by a supposedly independent political action committee.

A set of bills before the Connecticut General Assembly are meant to open more opportunities for women and girls. The bills have the support of the state’s