The former budget director for a disgraced ex Waterbury mayor will spend four months on home confinement and the rest of his five-year sentence on probation. Thomas Ariola Jr. In April , Martins got the contract to provide street-sweeping services to the city during the Spring and early Summer of , according to the Department of Justice.
Then the disputes began. The city felt the contractor did not clear the street adequately and quickly enough. Department of Justice. Ariola happened to be deputy treasurer of Giordano's Senate campaign at the time, the New York Times reported.
And city budget director from to and the chief fiscal officer of the city's Board of Education until , the Times reported. Giordano is serving a year sentence for sexually assaulting two pre-teen girls. He was convicted of using his power to have oral sex on more than one occasion with girls who were then 8 and 10, the Times reported.
He was nabbed after federal investigators tapped his phones, looking for information about city contracts given for campaign contributions, the Times reported in In the three days before he was arrested in , Giordano handed over enough material for the feds to obtain 13 search warrants in their public corruption investigation, the Times reported. Martin pleaded guilty in October to bribery and filing a false federal income tax return. Skip to content. Norwalk 29 mins ago. CT Lottery 1 hour ago.
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