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More than two years ago, Gov. Ned Lamont sought legal counsel on how to avoid conflicts with his wife, Annie’s, extensive company investment portfolio.
The Lamonts provided a “recusal” list to state agencies shortly after Lamont took office. The list has been periodically updated. DCG was on the January 2021 list but is not on the most recent list, updated on Nov. 15, Gov. Lamont’s spokesman Max Reiss said.
Exchanges by the governor and his likely challenger spotlight ethics rules drawn by lawmakers who narrowly define conflicts of interest.
Not yet a declared candidate for governor, Republican Bob Stefanowski is running hard at Gov. Ned Lamont over the state’s two COVID-19 testing contracts with Sema4, a company in which first lady Annie Lamont’s venture capital firm, Oak HC/FT, is a minority investor. Stefanowski’s criticism, delivered via talk radio, opinion pieces and social media, has prompted the first sharp exchanges between the Democratic governor and the Republican who is expected to challenge him in 2022, a rematch of the 2018 race narrowly won by Lamont.
Annie Lamont's firm Oak HC/FT invested more than once in Sema4, a company that got $17 million in state contracts on its way to going public.