Connecticut Senate Leader Arrested

[AnOhioan]

Source: Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to rough up someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.

State and federal authorities said Senate Minority Leader Louis DeLuca in 2005 sought help from James Galante, a Danbury trash hauler currently awaiting trial on 72 counts of tax fraud, racketeering, threatening and extortion.

"When you approach someone who is alleged to be a member of organized crime or affiliated with organized crime and you ask for this help, and you slip a note to them in a diner as opposed to even having a conversation, I think it's fair to draw an inference that you don't exactly have the best of intentions," U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said Friday.

DeLuca, a Republican from Woodbury, was booked on a misdemeanor charge Friday of second-degree conspiracy to commit threatening. He was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Waterbury Superior Court.



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[xchrom]

1. a republican. -- that says it all.

[acmavm]

2. Phooey. My first thought.

[emilyg]

6. Yep.

[jollyreaper2112]

8. correct

If it was a Dem he would have asked the thug to send a strongly worded letter with non-binding benchmarks.

[bonito]

10. Time to wipe my screen

LOL shocked by the truth :rofl:

[Phrogman]

11. Ohhh, that hurt!

LOL!

[mopinko]

13. if it weren't for the humor around here

i think my head would explode from knowing so much about the evils being done in my name.
thanks for a great laugh.

[Straight Shooter]

15. You sooooo deserve to get a DUzy award for that!

:D

[DeSwiss]

16. LOL!!!

[David__77]

17. Ha ha! Funny!

They deserve it right now, the Democrats.

[KamaAina]

3. So will he end up rooming with Rowland...

...or "Pedo" Phil Giordano?

Worst. Senate Race. Ever.: CT 2000: Traitor Joe vs. Pedo Phil. :puke:

[NavyDavy]

4. coward! typical rethug....can't take care of their own problems

unless they outnumber you 10 to 1....remember 2000!:evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

5. Another Republican criminal. How many does that make now?

Seems like at LEAST 685,499 at last count.......

[NastyRiffraff]

7. It's getting so the "R" identifier

in cases like this is merely a formality.

[The Count]

9. To quote Rush: "Why is it that every time there's an outcry for someone to resign

it's always a Republican? :shrug:

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. I didn't even have to read this article to know it's a repuke. Don'tcha just love those

"Family Values?"

[hughee99]

14. What do you expect...

It sounds like he was trying to help someone who actually needed it. If there's anything that repukes have no experience with, it's got to be this. Of course, in the great repuke tradition, he F'd it up AND broke the law in the process.

[Erika]

18. Just more of the GOP trashy values

They are learning well from the W.

[Pace]

19. James Galante, of AWD

was the individual that this cur engaged, I read the article in my local paper, here's the rationale; three times this politician contacted the police, and three times the police told him that individual in his family who was a victim had to file a complaint, not family members. So instead of convincing this family member to do the correct thing, this man contacts James Galante who has a reputation for this thuggish behaviour, and has been under investigation by the Justice Department for many, many, many years, going back to the 1980s, there's a reason why I know it.

Now, let's do the math; this is an example or rather empirical evidence of human stupidity:

1) You contact outside authorities to correct a situation rather than convince your "loved one" to take constructive action = lack of good family connections, a direct affront to much lauded and vaulted family values.

2) You connect a nefarious individual who has a reputation, well known, for being somewhat thuggish and outside the mainstream, = a direct conflict with the Republican ideal of "law and order".

3) Lastly, you connect with a individual who has been under federal investigation for decades, somewhat hampering his ability to commit illegal or rather organized criminal actions = a desire to fail, or the inability to use deductive logic in carrying out a hastly draw up plan or,,, just complete stupidity.

So in the end:

Summary here folks:

You get arrested
You do not help your relative rather you put them in an uncomfortable public arena
You help expedite the indictment of an individual on the outer rims of a lawful society, therefore, betraying an individual who would have committed an illegal act in deference to you

What's left?

Nothing.

A study in stupidity.


Thanks
and Regards
Pace

[Tuttle]

21. another report

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=25018

some nice details in here...

Tut-tut

[Auntie Bush]

23. Good post and welcome!

:hi:

[CTLawGuy]

20. not LBN

in CT the arrest of polticians is not considered "news".

[reprobate]

22. This only is more proof that the entire republican party is a criminal conspiracy.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. What a mean trick, leaving "Minority" out of the title! nt