For some, the unprecedented public release of a sensitive document from the the personnel file of a Connecticut assistant attorney general raises the question of whether Richard Blumenthal or his cronies tried to improperly bury…
It is almost month since Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that he is heading a multi-state investigation into Google’s Street View.
Yes, despite weekly claims that he would reveal the identities of those state the following week, as of today not one state has been identified by Blumenthal as having asking him to head up an investigation – a probe his office initially indicated included about 30 states.
New York Times financial columnist Ron Lieber has some insight for us on how auto dealers try to take advantage of us. The top of his column: “Sometime next week, President Obama will finally sign…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that some people are going to prison for their debts despite the fact that debtors’ prison are not allowed.
In a powerful story by reporters Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, the two explain how debtors can end up in jail in some states where creditors rule.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sidestepped giving direct answers to his false claims that he served in Vietnam as a Marine.
Blumenthal was the guest speaker today at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club where I asked him how he could have accidentally told veterans that he served in Vietnam.
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office Wednesday made public a sensitive document from the personnel file of Assistant Attorney General Richard Hine that raises questions about Hine’s credibility.
Hine is the retired Marine Major who last month claimed that Blumenthal told him 18 years ago that Blumenthal had been in Vietnam as a marine during the Vietnam War.
As promised, my wrongful termination suit against The Courant and Tribune companies has been resurrected by my attorney, Joseph Garrison of New Haven. Garrison today filed an amended complaint in Hartford Superior Court, focusing on…
Hartford Superior Court Judge Marshall Berger has dismissed my wrongful termination suit against The Hartford Courant and the Tribune Co., agreeing with the firms that I did not have a legal basis to bring to…
Richard Johnston, who for 20-years ran the Connecticut Humane Society as its controversial director and board chairman, was given more than $100,000 in compensation when he left the charity under pressure in March. That fact…
While Courant columnist Rick Green and I vehemently disagree about state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s continued suitability to be Connecticut’s Top Legal Officer after his lies about Vietnam military service, Green and I are on the same page when it comes to Martha Dean, the Avon attorney who is making another run at the Attorney General’s post.
In Green’s column today headlined “Martha Dean, A Candidate Who Shoots From The Hip,” she is diplomatically described as a fringe candidate.
I don’t mince my words (perhaps that is why my attorney Joe Garrison of New Haven keeps urging me to take out libel insurance for my “intemperate” comments).
I think Dean is a whack job.
The more she talks about her beliefs, and how she would run the state Attorney General’s office, the more you are going to see that she might even make some Tea Party members cringe.
I first wrote about Dean, who had run unsuccessfully against Blumenthal in 2002, earlier in the year when she announced that she would run again this year.
In her press conference announcing her candidacy, said she would run a much different, less anti-business office.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal issued a press release today claiming to head a multi-state investigation into Google’s collection of data over WiFi networks. But, when I asked his staff (Blumenthal is in hiding from…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s self-inflicted Vietnamgate is getting to be a real quagmire for the former Mr. Clean, who used to have a reputation for integrity, even by his political opponents. Ever since the…
One of the largest medical practices in Connecticut is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office for its billing practices after two patients were thrown out for creating a fuss over being charged additional office visit fees as part of their routine physicals.
Two West Hartford residents were told by Dr. Kent Stahl, CEO of Hartford Medical Group, which serves 50,000 patients, that they were no longer welcome in the practice.
The following story appeared in today’s edition of the New London Day:
New London Day: Blumenthal Critic Had His Share Of Problems In State’s AG Office
By Ted Mann
The assistant attorney general who this week accused his boss, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, of lying to him about having served in Vietnam has clashed in the past with superiors in the attorney general’s office.
Maybe instead of spending a large chunk of his time talking to reporters, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal should have spent more time actually managing his office. Connecticut Post Reporter Ken Dixon wrote today that…
The vast majority of the Connecticut media is proving to be an embarrassment to the journalism profession as they either ignore or twist the facts in Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnamgate. As of 2 p.m….
NBC’s Tom Monahan, one of the few Connecticut political journalists who give as accurate account of the latest “shoe to drop” in Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnamgate.
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A veteran Connecticut Assistant Attorney General claims that Richard Blumenthal falsely told him 18 years ago that he had served as a Marine in Vietnam.
“It is the most despicable disgusting thing,” assistant attorney general Richard R. Hine told me in a telephone interview this morning.
Hine, a 24-year veteran trial attorney working for Blumenthal, said not only did Blumenthal lie to him 18 years ago about serving in Vietnam, he had heard Blumenthal make similar false statements at about five functions the two attended together over the years. He said he could not pinpoint any of the five. Blumenthal is now the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd.
While the rest of the Connecticut media has forgotten or forgiven (or pretended it never happened) state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s false claims at scores of speeches to veterans that he served as a Marine…
Congressmen, for many people, have about the same credibility as journalists and used car salesman. But congressional aides are a much different story: at least they should be. They are a wonderful resource for consumers…