In a damning audit of state police — which exposed 26,000 likely-fraudulent tickets that were logged into Connecticut’s racial profiling database — one state trooper stood out as a dubious high performer.
The audit flagged a lone state policeman who submitted 1,350 “overreported” tickets from 2014 to 2017. (These are the tickets auditors deemed, with “high likelihood,” were “false.”) This one trooper accounted for more than 5 percent of the state’s total over the seven years covered by the audit. And according to the report, these dodgy citations accounted for “over 83 percent of this trooper’s infraction records.
The audit flagged a lone state policeman who submitted 1,350 “overreported” tickets from 2014 to 2017. (These are the tickets auditors deemed, with “high likelihood,” were “false.”) This one trooper accounted for more than 5 percent of the state’s total over the seven years covered by the audit. And according to the report, these dodgy citations accounted for “over 83 percent of this trooper’s infraction records.
- 7/25/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. Now, the Csp refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge.
These fake tickets, to be clear, did not result in fines or court dates for Connecticut drivers.
These fake tickets, to be clear, did not result in fines or court dates for Connecticut drivers.
- 7/16/2023
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Connecticut is set to declare Sunday, April 23, 2023 as “Little Richard Day” in honor of the late performer’s “incomparable contributions to the history of music in America.” And no, the rock n’ roll icon doesn’t hail from the Nutmeg state. He was born in Georgia and lived in California, Tennessee and other ports of call until his death in 2020.
Rather, Gov. Ned Lamont is issuing the proclamation in recognition of the release this month of “Little Richard: I Am Everything” and Connecticut’s many ties to the production.
The film, which Magnolia bought out of the Sundance Film Festival, will premiere at the Bedford Playhouse, which is hosted by the Greenwich International Film Festival on April 23. It was produced by Greenwich International Film Festival board member Robert Friedman and produced and directed by Lisa Cortés, a Connecticut native and an alumna of Yale University.
Cortés’ film charts Little Richard...
Rather, Gov. Ned Lamont is issuing the proclamation in recognition of the release this month of “Little Richard: I Am Everything” and Connecticut’s many ties to the production.
The film, which Magnolia bought out of the Sundance Film Festival, will premiere at the Bedford Playhouse, which is hosted by the Greenwich International Film Festival on April 23. It was produced by Greenwich International Film Festival board member Robert Friedman and produced and directed by Lisa Cortés, a Connecticut native and an alumna of Yale University.
Cortés’ film charts Little Richard...
- 4/20/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Joy Behar got blunt on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” saying that if more Black people in the country owned guns, politicians would enact gun reform much quicker.
The hosts spent most of the Hot Topics discussion on gun reform once more, as they regularly have been since the horrific killing of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. In the days following the mass shooting, the women at the table have offered their thoughts on what will actually prompt congress to act, suggesting this week that gun advocates be forced to see “these graphic photographs of what these guns do to little kids bodies.”
The hosts got heated as most of them once again argued that Ar-15s need to be taken off the market altogether. Host Joy Behar criticized the Republican party for effectively making that idea “a no-starter” though.
But conservative guest host Lindsey Granger, a gun owner herself,...
The hosts spent most of the Hot Topics discussion on gun reform once more, as they regularly have been since the horrific killing of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. In the days following the mass shooting, the women at the table have offered their thoughts on what will actually prompt congress to act, suggesting this week that gun advocates be forced to see “these graphic photographs of what these guns do to little kids bodies.”
The hosts got heated as most of them once again argued that Ar-15s need to be taken off the market altogether. Host Joy Behar criticized the Republican party for effectively making that idea “a no-starter” though.
But conservative guest host Lindsey Granger, a gun owner herself,...
- 6/8/2022
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
The tweet seems harmless enough, on the surface. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account slapped its logo atop a John Hickenlooper for Colorado ad and gave the presidential dropout a big thumbs up.
Hickenlooper, the Dscc wrote, “is running against Cory Gardner — the most vulnerable Republican up in 2020! If we want to end the gridlock, cut the costs of health care and prescription drugs, and act on climate — we need to flip this #COSen seat.”
The Democratic Party endorsing a former Democratic governor in a Senate race may not sound like a headline.
Hickenlooper, the Dscc wrote, “is running against Cory Gardner — the most vulnerable Republican up in 2020! If we want to end the gridlock, cut the costs of health care and prescription drugs, and act on climate — we need to flip this #COSen seat.”
The Democratic Party endorsing a former Democratic governor in a Senate race may not sound like a headline.
- 8/26/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
The Connecticut senator will announce his retirement Wednesday. In the end, Howard Kurtz writes, the Democrat-turned-independent never really healed from 2004, 2006, and 2008, though he briefly became a hero of the left by championing the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
In the end, Joe Lieberman decided he didn't need any more tsuris.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama Won't Touch Gun Control
Not that the Connecticut senator would describe his decision to retire with that Yiddish term. He will offer a more philosophical explanation when he makes the official announcement Wednesday, a move that a Lieberman aide confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Lieberman, 68, plans to quote a passage from Ecclesiastes, popularized by a Byrds song: "To everything there is a season..."
As a man without a party, the Democrat-turned-independent faced a rocky path to reelection in 2012. The Lieberman aide did not dispute that, while noting that his boss has...
In the end, Joe Lieberman decided he didn't need any more tsuris.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama Won't Touch Gun Control
Not that the Connecticut senator would describe his decision to retire with that Yiddish term. He will offer a more philosophical explanation when he makes the official announcement Wednesday, a move that a Lieberman aide confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Lieberman, 68, plans to quote a passage from Ecclesiastes, popularized by a Byrds song: "To everything there is a season..."
As a man without a party, the Democrat-turned-independent faced a rocky path to reelection in 2012. The Lieberman aide did not dispute that, while noting that his boss has...
- 1/18/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Last night, Connecticut’s Linda McMahon won the Republican nomination for Senate candidate. The former W.W.E. C.E.O. spent more than $22 million of her personal fortune to do so, and says that she is poised to funnel “at least $50 million of her own money in the fall” when she takes on Connecticut attorney general Dick Blumenthal in the general election, according to The Washington Post. Also in Connecticut, Ned Lamont spent nearly $9 million of his own money losing the Democratic gubernatorial primary race. Across the country and earlier this year, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard executive, lent more than $5 million to her campaign to become the Republican Senate candidate from California. These expenditures are all handily dwarfed by those of Meg Whitman.The ex-eBay C.E.O., dropped a dizzying $99 million in order to secure the nomination for the California governorship. (Her opponent, Jeff Poizner, lent his...
- 8/11/2010
- Vanity Fair
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