Chief State's Attorney Christopher Morano said criminal prosecution of Lisa Moody is not warranted.
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He said no criminal statutes bar the governor's chief of staff or her commissioners from campaigning on state property and said the use of state time was too minimal to warrant a larceny charge. Such a charge would have required an intent to defraud the state.
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Morano said no criminal charges against anyone will be filed in the case. (AP)
So that's that. I believe that an ethics investigation is still ongoing, although I could be wrong about that.
Source
"Moody Did Not Violate Law." Associated Press 6 February, 2006.
12 comments:
!!! WHITEWASH !!!
well, glad Ms. DiNardo gets a chance to rant here privately...might as well start the whole Kubler-Ross business early....anger is the first reaction to loss...or is it denial?
This should surprise nobody. This was not about Moody. If they went after Moody than they would have to take down some of the commisioners. This is not something they wanted to do. Kind of like Rowland/Tomasso. If they keep going, a lot more well known names would of come out. Didn't want that either. Just make it look like your cleaning up but just don't look under the rug!!!!!
Psssssssst.....that's the rest of the air going out of DeStefano and Molloy's campaigns!
Oh, come now. I'm sure the DeStefano and Malloy campaigns have already issued press releases offering effusive apologies for having jumped to conclusions and called for precipitate action.
Right? Right?
I mean, they have apologized, right? Something like, "Sorry we said you were ethically bankrupt and should be crucified and the Governor was a big phony and all that. No hard feelings, 'kay?"
Hello?
Nothing at all? Nothing?
Well, I am shocked. And they had so very much to say before ... Odd, that is. Very odd indeed.
Listen, even Democratic legislators have completely written off DeStefano and Malloy. It's just a matter of how big do they lose by. Destefano will probably win a primary but then feel like Bill Curry.
Why would Morano bite that hand that feeds him? He never has in the past. Yes it is a whitewash but that was clear from the beginning.
Morano is either looking to run with Rell as the LG..become chief us attorney if o'connor is selected by Rell as the LG candidate or in the alternative get re-appointed as state's attorney...it seems he will at least be re-appointed with so deftly handling this Moody mess.
Even whitewashing the commisioners and deputies took alot of guts for Morano..i guess he wants re-appointment so badly that he will bury his head in the sand no matter what a Rell operative does.
Morano is not very smart or deep down ethical. There is nothing devious going on here. He just wasn't going to go up against his co-workers and his boss when the political winds weren't demanding it.
Upset Moody was whitewashed? The knife cuts both ways just be happy how many Democrats were left off the hook during the Rowland scandal. Rell could be giving her state of the state address to an empty house.
Or jetsking on Candlewood Lake!
Let's try this again. A crime was never committed but Rell's own ethics rules were violated in her own toilet rooms. So to divert attention from her lack of leadership she authorized a criminal investigation that was going nowhere.
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