Rowland Partner Got (State) Contracts

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

from today's Hartford Courant. meantime, in a related scandale, is anyone up in Connecticut able to explain why his two aides split the check for the flagstone porch? he hasn't addressed that issue AT ALL.


Gov. John G. Rowland was involved in the late 1990s in a lucrative investment partnership that included a contractor who got more than $900,000 in state contracts after going into business with the governor.

Rowland's partners were Anthony R. Cocchiola, the owner of Cocchiola Paving of Watertown; Michael H. Cicchetti, a politically connected Waterbury lawyer whose specialties include real estate development; and Robert Capanna, a now-deceased businessman and landowner in the Prospect area where the partnership operated. In a statement released Thursday in response to reporters' questions, Rowland described the three men as friends.

The statement did not address the question of what Rowland contributed to the partnership, in terms of time or expertise, and his office refused to elaborate. The statement said Rowland put up about $7,200 in seed money - compared with about $10,000 each from Cocchiola and Cicchetti and about $11,000 from Capanna. The partners shared the profits equally, each receiving about $60,000 before the partnership, formed in 1996, was dissolved in 2001.


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[revcarol]

1. Gee, where can I join one of these partnerships,

where I put up less and get an equal share of the profits, huh, huh?

[kclown]

2. I hear the Texas Rangers are for sale

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. I saw Rowland on C-Span yesterday. What a disgrace.

Before he started his "apology" he was kidding with the sheriff in the audience about gifts and contributions. In other words, making light with his good ole boys regarding the act of contrition he was about to make.

I HATED when he said he was going to complete the job that he was voted in to do. Doesn't he understand that his kind of corruption was a breach of public trust? It involved accepting favors for political consideration. That is far worse than lying about a private liaision.

[yellowcanine]

4. Why is it that the penny ante thievin politicians get caught

and the really big crooks like Bush and Cheney get away with their thievin? Spiro Agnew, for all of his high political status when he was brought down, was essentially nailed for a few thousand dollars of contractor kickbacks stuffed into envelopes and delivered to his office while he was guv of Maryland.

[wakfs]

5. Connecticut here

Please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign, please resign.

I despise Rowland. Not only is he a crook and a liar, he was alleged to have beaten up his first wife.

The way I figure it, any notable Republican (governors are notable) who is forced to resign helps taint all Republicans.