Ethics

Members of the newly formed Artificial Intelligence Caucus met at the Connecticut State Capitol Thursday to announce the group's goals during the legislative session. The caucus said it will advocate for policies that ensure ethical standards in developing AI initiatives.

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) may have violated ethics rules, according to an investigation by The New York Times. The first-term Republican congressman called the allegations of political patronage, “tabloid garbage.”

The Attorney General's office began investigating the CT Port Authority in 2020 after it got a whistleblower complaint about a 'success fee.'

The Senate Judiciary Committee has announced that it’s scheduled a vote on a U.S. Supreme Court ethics legislation later this month. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) welcomes the move.

Lawrence McHugh, the chairman of the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees for nearly a decade, will replace Donald Frost of Fairfield on the Connecticut Port Authority’s board of directors — after a WSHU investigation.

The identity of the Connecticut Port Authority board member who accepted illegal gifts from a vendor seeking business has been revealed in documents obtained by WSHU through a freedom of information request.

The names of two Connecticut Port Authority employees who received illegal gifts from a vendor seeking business in 2017 and 2019 have been revealed in a letter to state legislators.

The troubled state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, went out of businesses earlier this month, after Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature agreed to replace it with a new ethics panel, but progress has been slow.

Robert Bruneau, a city councilman and fire commissioner in West Haven, used his elected position as a leader of the West Shore Fire District to authorize contracts and payments for a company owned by his wife and son, documents show.

The growing dispute highlights the local politics and influence that are at play throughout Connecticut at the moment as municipal boards, commissions and councils decide how to spend millions of dollars in one-time funding.