The Office of State Ethics fined a New York-based consulting firm $10,000 Tuesday for providing more than $3,000 in food and gifts including hockey tickets and an overnight stay at a Greenwich club to Connecticut Port Authority officials in 2017 and 2019.
Seabury Maritime, a subsidiary of Seabury Capital Group, provided some of those gifts while pursuing a business relationship with the authority, and others after securing a contract to help find an operator for state pier in New London, according to the consent order signed by Seabury and the state ethics office.
The Connecticut Office of State Ethics has entered into an agreement with a New York-based maritime company after they flouted state laws on gift giving to the Connecticut Port Authority.
“Private companies that seek to engage state and quasi-public agencies for contracts must understand that fostering good will with state officials and employees cannot involve provision of impermissible gifts,” said Peter Lewandowski, executive director of the ethics office.