A super PAC’s first television ad complements attacks made by the Republican presumptive gubernatorial nominee, Bob Stefanowski, on the integrity and transparency of the first-term Democratic governor, Ned Lamont.
A 30-second commercial by CT Truth PAC spotlights the FBI investigation of school construction contracts once overseen by Konstantinos Diamantis, the state budget official fired in October by the Lamont administration.
The revelation of Ms. Diamantis’s job, first reported in this column last October, prompted Lamont to hire former U.S. Attorney Stanley Twardy to investigate her hiring.
The state is financing almost all of the cost of multiple school projects in Hartford, but investigators have zeroed in on the $150 million overhaul of Bulkeley High School on the city’s southside, according to public records and interviews with more than a half dozen people familiar with the project.In particular, the investigators appear interested in how Konstantinos Diamantis, the politically-influential former director of the state school financing program, persuaded Hartford to hire a second consultant and how that consultant, Construction Advocacy Professionals, was awarded the contract even though two competitors submitted lower bids.