Connecticut Port Authority employee Andrew Lavigne was fined $750 and suspended for two days without pay for violating state ethics rules when he accepted hockey tickets from a company doing business.
The Connecticut Port Authority on Tuesday replaced its ethics compliance officer, Andrew Lavigne, the employee found to have illegally accepted gifts from a company doing business with the authority..
Speaker of the House Matt Ritter took swift action on Saturday after a WSHU report identified Don Frost as the Connecticut Port Authority board member who received illegal gifts from a vendor seeking business. Now, his replacement has also drawn criticism.
House Speaker Matt Ritter tapped a longtime business and education leader Saturday to replace one of the Connecticut Port Authority officials cited in a state ethics ruling.
Ritter named Lawrence McHugh, president of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce since 1983 and the chairman of the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees for nearly a decade, to replace Donald Frost of Fairfield on the port authority’s board of directors.