Nothing like your stash of porn to lead prosecutors into filing criminal indictments because, oh, porn in America is such a titillating subject. Reading through the Hour report, we can establish that Thomas Cummings resigned from the force in order to protect his pension. Then this passage:

Investigators said they seized 143 pornographic VHS tapes and 110 pornographic DVDs that depicted teenage and 20-something males engaged in oral and anal sex, sometimes in orgies, during a Nov. 1, 2007, warrant search of the condo.

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If it comes from MUNIS, the City of Norwalk accounting system, it is a fantasy number. With this startling response to queries by Fran DiMeglio and Torgny Astrom, DPW director Hal Avlrd set the tone for the DPW part of the capital budget review last Wednesday night.

Granted, to some extent the way in which projects get executed play a big role in when funds disperse from the city coffers–but, the problem here wasn’t that commissioners didn’t understand that — after all they’ve collectively been approving capital budgets for years. This is why some specific line item requests seemed to stick in the craw.

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