Another proud day to be residing in my home state of Connecticut. In yesterday’s article “Gambling Takes A Toll” in the Journal Inquirer, writer Keith Phaneuf reviews a study relating to gambling as our Governer Rell and lawmakers debate the idea of allowing more gambling in the form of Keno within our state. With regards to embezzlement, he writes that state and federal authorities made 43 arrests in 1992, and 214 in 2007, a 400% increase. No other state with more than 40 embezzlements in 1992 reported as high an increase in these crimes. The national increase was 38%, so we beat the national average as well.
Update – Dreier (Heard About This One?)
I still can’t understand why some frauds receive much publicity, while others equally deserving and in the public’s eye receive next to no attention. This Connecticut fraud involved an attorney who single-handedly brought down a multiple office law firm employing hundreds of lawyers and staff. Yet the only place I see any media coverage is within the Connecticut Law Tribune, …