Let’s see the legislative session ends Wednesday, the budget is in flux and its Friday. So it is only fitting that Connecticut endures another episode of Corrupticut. Oh right, being arrested doesn’t mean that you did anything, you have to be tried first. Except that DeLuca managed to say, at least according to the “>Courant,
DeLuca, 73, admitted in a statement released by his staff Friday that he sought help from Galante to protect a relative in an abusive domestic relationship.
Galante, whom DeLuca said he knew through their mutual involvement in civic affairs, offered to have someone meet with the abuser, but the meeting never took place, DeLuca said.
“I hoped that a meeting would have been all that was necessary to convince this person to stop the abuse,” DeLuca said in the statement. “I did not want violence or for the perpetrator to get hurt. I just wanted the physical abuse of my relative to stop.”
Whoops, there’s that classic sort of confession, I did something but I don’t think it was wrong, in hopes that no one notices. On a Friday. So the alleged reporting on this allegedly states:
But sources close to the investigation have said that the charges against DeLuca arise from a request he made to the man at the center of the trash hauling case, James Galante, to look into a romantic relationship a young, female relative of DeLuca’s was having with a convicted criminal from the Waterbury area.
The sources said DeLuca strongly disapproved of the relationship and believed that it was having a destructive effect on his larger family. An emotionally distraught DeLuca made the request of Galante during a meeting at a Woodbury diner in April 2005. At the diner, according to state authorities, Galante passed DeLuca a note asking, “Do you want me to have someone pay him a visit?” DeLuca allegedly replied “yes” and provided Galante with the Waterbury man’s name and address.
A mutual involvement in civic affairs? Does Tony Soprano use that line to describe his meetings with business associates? Generally when you have a young female relative who is having a romantic relationship with a convicted criminal from the Waterbury area, you don’t call your local trash guy to check into it. Or as the note allegedly said, “pay him a visit.” You start with maybe talking to the young female relative, maybe the parents of said relative, and or maybe a half dozen other things, but sending an acquaintance of an acquaintance you meet through mutual civic affairs who happens to haul trash is not on the list. There’s no excuse. Capiche?
source: The Courant, State Sen. Louis DeLuca Arrested, By EDMUND H. MAHONY and MARK PAZNIOKAS, June 1, 2007
