Bradley and Martinez appeared in federal court on Tuesday. Author: Doug Stewart (FOX61) Updated: 6:21 PM EDT May 25, 2021
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut Connecticut State Sen. Dennis Bradley and Jessica Martinez, a former chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education, have been indicted on federal charges.
Bradley and Martinez turned themselves in to authorities on Tuesday. They are charged with six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Additionally, Martinez was charged with making false statements to investigators and before the grand jury. Bradley was released on a $300,000 bond and Martinez released on a $250.000 bond. Dennis Bradley Jr. and Jessica Martinez surrendered today to the U.S. Marshals Service in New Haven. An indictment is sealed pending their court appearances this afternoon. said the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney s Office in Connecticut, Tom Carson.
Published May 15. 2021 12:01AM | Updated May 15. 2021 10:29PM By
In a meeting with editors and publishers from newspapers across the state Thursday, Gov. Ned Lamont sent the clear message that he does not consider an increase in broad-based taxes to be justified or a good idea. If the legislature sends him a budget built on such tax increases, he won’t sign it.
By broad-based, Lamont said he means the primary revenue sources for state government the income tax and sales tax.
He left himself some wiggle room. Lamont has, after all, signed off on the idea of legalizing cannabis for recreational use and allowing sports betting and casino gaming, in person and digitally. These would be taxed and generate substantial revenue. And Lamont’s two-year budget proposal includes a highway usage fee on large trucks that is based on the vehicle’s size and miles traveled. In other words, a tax. It would bring in $90 million annually, the administration estimates.
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No one is complaining about the Republican state budget proposal because there isn’t one. That seems to be the point.
Unless something changes, Connecticut Republicans will have failed to propose any alternative state spending and revenue plan for three years in a row: 2019, 2020, and now again in 2021.
Republican leaders aren’t saying why they don’t offer an alternative budget proposal our inquiries went ignored but they have had plenty to say about the plans produced by the other side.
They have howled about the budget package passed by the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, with its more than $1 billion in proposed new taxes by 2023, falling almost exclusively on the state’s wealthiest.
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Feb. 7, 2021
Legislators including Senate President Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven), Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk), State Senator Will Haskell (D-Westport), State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague), State Representative Josh Elliott (D-Hamden) and State Representative Gary Turco (D-Newington) advocated for the passage of Senate Bill 146, which seeks to expand gaming options in the state. Among the bill s benefits, they said: revenues from internet lottery gaming would allow for continued, consistent funding of PACT CT, the state s debt-free community college program connecting numerous students with debt-free access to higher education.
Subscribe By passing iLottery in the gaming bill we already have in front of us, we will be able to fully fund the PACT program, said Sen. Osten, Senate Chair of the Appropriations Committee and Vice Chair of the Public Safety and Security Committee. PACT is for all residents in Connecticut to maintain and improve upon their wor