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Wanda Geter-Pataky, Alfredo Castillo and others are facing charges related to the 2019 mayoral primary in Bridgeport.

Diamantis, a former top-ranking Connecticut official, faces 22 charges, including extortion and bribery.

A federal grand jury that began investigating state school construction grants has more recently focused on a day in May 2020 when Konstantinos Diamantis personally helped deliver a $600,000 check to the state Department of Social Services’ audit division from a Bristol doctor who admitted to overbilling Medicaid.

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim wants primary re-vote on Jan. 16; challenger John Gomes says Dec. 19.

Since the day after Mayor Joe Ganim narrowly defeated challenger John Gomes with an overwhelming tally of absentee ballot votes, representatives of their campaigns have met with city and state election officials to discuss the logistics of a court-ordered second Democratic primary.

Herbst was on sabbatical following her departure as president in July 2019. She returned to teaching a year later.

Department of Public Health didn’t track insurance payments to Covid-19 test providers, state auditors say.

Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Connecticut school districts have been required to file annual two-page reports indicating they have conducted lockdown drills — but more than a dozen districts have failed to file the report even once.

It took the state 12 years — the same amount of time a student can pass from first grade to college — to conclude that the town of Manchester owed it nearly $5 million due to “ineligible costs” in a state-financed reconstruction of its middle school, Bennet Academy.