{"id":1048,"date":"2004-01-07T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1048.html"},"modified":"2004-01-07T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T17:34:25","slug":"rowlands-records-subpoenaed-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rowlands-records-subpoenaed-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowland’s records subpoenaed in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on my post<\/a> last week about the corruption scandal surrounding Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (R), the governor received a federal subpoena yesterday<\/a>, requiring him to produce all of his documents relating to his water-front cottage, personal investments, tax returns, and all gifts.<\/p>\n

To briefly review, Rowland got into some trouble when a prominent state contractor and several government aides paid for the refurbishing of the governor’s cottage, including a new kitchen, a cathedral ceiling, and a hot tub with a water view. Making matters worse, Rowland lied<\/a> about paying for the improvements himself.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters further, the New York Times discovered<\/a> that Rowland is a business partner in a private development group that has been awarded $1.3 million in state work during Rowland’s tenure, raising even more questions about ethics violations.<\/p>\n

These controversies follow two other<\/i> controversies in which Rowland had to pay fines for violating state ethics codes.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s subpoena, however, was the first time that any of Rowland’s personal records had been sought by federal investigators.<\/p>\n

And before I forget, State Rep. Robert Peters this week became the latest Republican<\/i> in Connecticut to call on Rowland to resign.<\/p>\n

We could start a pool to see how much longer he lasts in office, but I don’t think it’ll be very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on my post last week about the corruption scandal surrounding Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (R), the governor received a federal subpoena yesterday, requiring him to produce all of his documents relating to his water-front cottage, personal investments, tax returns, and all gifts. To briefly review, Rowland got into some trouble when a prominent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}