CT Senate Minority Leader Lou DeLuca (R) arrested

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Arrested Senator Cites Concern For Granddaughter
June 2, 2007
By EDMUND H. MAHONY n Courant Staff Writer

It was Sept. 7. Two men were talking quietly in Philip's Diner in Woodbury when the younger of the two pushed what looked like a bag of McDonald's hamburgers across the table.

The younger man was on the short side, balding, and he wore a goatee. He claimed to be employed by an indicted trash executive from Danbury who, just months earlier, had been accused of using New York mob muscle to carve up garbage-hauling routes in western Connecticut and upstate New York. In reality, he was an undercover agent for the FBI.

Across the table was state Sen. Louis C. DeLuca, the 73-year-old minority leader of the state Senate, gubernatorial confidant, and one of Connecticut's most senior Republicans. When DeLuca peeked into the fast food bag, he found it packed with $5,000 in cash.

There is some disagreement about the conversation that followed. DeLuca did not accept the bag of money. But, according to a law enforcement affidavit made public Friday in connection with DeLuca's arrest on a related threatening charge, there is no dispute that the money was supposed to be a bribe from indicted garbage executive James Galante, a man who had done favors for DeLuca in the past

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-deluca0602.artjun02,0,4755565.story?

[Liberalgirl788]

1. Resign Now!

I'm not surprised to see Repukes defend this guy but I can't figure out why my old senile Democrat ex-Senator was hugging and saying nice things about him. Maybe it's an Italian thing? If he has even an ounce of self respect, he should resign. A person who makes laws should know better than to take the law into his own hands.