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Unnamed employees and a board member of the troubled Connecticut Port Authority received...

A company hired as a consultant by the Connecticut Port Authority to find an operator for State Pier in New London has agreed to a $10,000 settlement with

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A New York-based maritime company has agreed to pay a $10,000...

Connecticut regulators say the firm violated state ethics rules by providing gifts to employees and a board member of the Connecticut Port Authority.

The Office of State Ethics fined a New York-based consulting firm $10,000 Tuesday for providing more than $3,000 in food and gifts — including hockey tickets and an overnight stay at a Greenwich club — to Connecticut Port Authority officials in 2017 and 2019. Seabury Maritime, a subsidiary of Seabury Capital Group, provided some of those gifts while pursuing a business relationship with the authority, and others after securing a contract to help find an operator for state pier in New London,...

“Private companies that seek to engage state and quasi-public agencies for contracts must understand that fostering good will with state officials and employees cannot involve provision of impermissible gifts,” said Peter Lewandowski, executive director of the ethics office.

The port authority needs to investigate and disclose which employees and board member took unethical gifts, bribes, from a company courting the agency for

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Demand letters sent to 155 who havent filed income information

An investigation by The Accountability Project found hundreds of foreclosure cases in which fees were too high, and diminishing oversight by the state.