Lou DeLuca finally resigning his state senate seat.

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over the incident where he went to a known mob boss (James Galante) to have this mob boss kick his grandson-in-law's ass. For those passing through the CT forum, DeLuca is indeed a Republican.

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Sen. Louis C. DeLuca told Gov. M. Jodi Rell today he would announce his resignation this afternoon.

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DeLuca and his wife, Alice, paid a courtesy call on Rell at 11 a.m., a prelude to his resignation. Sources say he has begun making similar notifications.

DeLuca will hold a press conference at 1 p.m.

Mark Pazniokas

http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2007/11/deluca-is-set-t.html
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1. Deluca Promised to help Mobster--Repub American article here

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/09/29/news/281478.txt

Affidavit: DeLuca promised to help alleged mobster

Connecticut state Senate Minority Leader Sen. Louis DeLuca, R-Woodbury, faces investigation by a Senate committee. (AP Photo/Bob Child File Photo)

HARTFORD — Sen. Louis C. DeLuca was offering political help to an indicted trash hauler last year while the Rell administration was proposing to regulate the trash industry in Connecticut.

DeLuca, then the Senate minority leader, met twice last September with an undercover federal agent posing as a go-between for James Galante, the Danbury hauler at the center of a federal racketeering probe.

The timing of the meetings is important and potentially damaging for DeLuca, R-Woodbury, who now faces the possibility of exclusion from the Senate because of his offers to use his position to help Galante.

Federal prosecutors on June 9, 2006, unsealed a sweeping indictment of Galante and 28 others in an alleged Mafia-backed scheme to stifle competition in the trash industry. more...