Connecticut’s new attorney general drops hundreds of whistleblower complaintsBy Associated Press, WaPo
Published: September 1
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HARTFORD, Conn. —
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has closed hundreds of public corruption investigations and several high-profile probes of businesses that were launched by his predecessor, Richard Blumenthal, a longtime consumer advocate who left the post earlier this year to become a U.S. senator.Jepsen, the state Senate’s former Democratic majority leader, has closed 513 of the 699 whistleblower cases he inherited from Blumenthal when he took office in January, according to numbers provided by the attorney general’s office to The Associated Press. State law shields the identities of whistleblowers and details of the complaints. But they typically concern claims of corruption or mishandling of state duties or a state contract.
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Matt O’Connor, a spokesman for a coalition of state employee unions, said he and others he’s talked to cannot recall such a large number of whistleblower cases being closed. But because allegations of fraud or shoddy work by government agencies and contractors are protected from public release, he said there’s no way to know why Jepsen acted.
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Jepsen said he intends to let businesses know they will “get a fair shake from this office.”<snip>
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