Edmund H. Mahony

Judge Barbara Bellis ordered the first hearing, on a date to be determined next week, to focus on what role, if any, Jones’s Connecticut lawyer played in in the disclosure of what she said could involve medical and psychiatric records of the relatives of victims who sued over Jones’ broadcast assertions that the massacre was a hoax.

Talk of a likely investigation began this week after attorney James Sandler suggested to the commission staff in a series of emails that chairman William A. DiBella had authorized the work.

The union’s appeal, which has lost twice so far in the federal courts, focuses primarily on public disclosure of internal affairs investigations that result in findings of “exonerated, unfounded, or not sustained.” The union contract, ratified by the state Legislature in 2019, exempts unsubstantiated complaints from disclosure under state freedom of information law.

The bipartisan bill, written by Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Bob Menendez of New Jersey, would require the state department to press Cuba to comply with a century old extradition treaty. As leverage, it threatens, among other things, to withhold foreign assistance money for Caribbean narcotics control programs benefiting Cuba.

Superior Court Judge Cesar Noble, in a 50 page-decision released Tuesday, rejected Hrezi’s claims that he was illegaly denied the opportunity to primary Larson because strict enforcement of ballot access laws durg the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with mistakes by election officials, prevented his campaign from collecting the required number of petition signatures.

Alex Jones put the company behind his Infowars internet site into federal bankruptcy in Houston, triggering an automatic postponement of an imminent trial in Waterbury that was to determine a damage award to 14 Sandy Hook victims suing Jones and his principal business, Free Speech Systems, in Connecticut Superior Court.

Federal prosecutors said Chen bought and installed a computer Point-of-Sale system for the restaurants, but paid an additional fee for “zapper” software, which is designed to enable a business to under report sales by deleting transactions.

If approved by the U.S. Senate, Kahn - a former federal prosecutor - will be the third Connecticut judge on the federal appeals court in New York, which has influence over contracts, securities, anti-trust matters and other questions of commercial law. The court, a few blocks above Wall Street, takes federal appeals from New York, Connecticut and Vermont.

Federal prosecutors said Deron Freeman concealed income, filed falsified tax returns and ignored a decade of prodding by the IRS to make payments. At the same time, they said, he was spending wildly on boats, motorcycles, six-figure luxury automobiles and a $2.5 million, 14,000 square foot home with heated floors in South Glastonbury.

Investigators began looking into the telephone call on suspicion that it could have been arranged by Dulos as an attempt to establish an alibi for the time his wife disappeared.

Federal prosecutors said a search of Francisco Franceschini’s home in April 2021 turned up a loaded 9mm handgun, a loaded .380 caliber handgun, and approximately 44 grams of crack cocaine.

The signed Pollock hung in the $6 million Kasser-Bergstein mansion on Lake Avenue in the Greenwich backcountry until the divorce, when Bergstein claimed it was joint property of the marriage and its future ownership should be decided by a state divorce court.

Federal authorities said Mexican pilot Ronier Sanchez Alonzo, 46, was helping to fly the drugs from South America to Honduras for a drug trafficking organization based in Wolcott in 2016.

“It is an unprecedented number of vacancies,” said Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald, who chairs the Criminal Justice Commission, the agency that hires state prosecutors.

Authorities said Joseph Torrice was found unresponsive and lying on the floor of a cell in the Manchester Police Department on July 10. Police and fire personnel rendered aid to Torrice, who was taken by ambulance to Hartford Hospital, where he remained on life support until his death on July 18.