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ex-Hartford Courant reporter, wrote weekly Government Watch column at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Zx0nFZK9d2 Aqui lo tienes todo.

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Kevin Rennie updates the Diamantis debacle: The CT case where the jury could have asked if there is a verdict of 'very guilty' courant.com/2026/10/03/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: The CT case where the jury could have asked if there is a verdict of ‘very guilty’

The judge could have added to the 10 years of incarceration that the federal sentencing guidelines recommend but instead departed downward.

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Fugitive ex-CT official insists he's the victim. Why Greece may not have to turn him over to U.S. courant.com/2026/09/23/fugit…

Fugitive ex-CT official insists he’s the victim. Why Greece may not have to turn him over to U.S.

Whatever he decides to do is likely to be complicated by his finances, which have been described in court as disastrous.

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Kevin Rennie dissects Diamantis’ fugitive media tour. dailyructions.com/fact-free-…
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Kevin Rennie: A humiliating failure for federal authorities in Connecticut courant.com/2026/09/19/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: A humiliating failure for federal authorities in Connecticut

No one could blame criminals this week if they think the worst they will face is a carful of earnest Keystone Cops.

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Kevin Rennie: Combatants devoted to winning by laying waste to anyone enter CT politics courant.com/2026/07/11/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: Combatants devoted to winning by laying waste to anyone enter CT politics

Brace yourself for four tumultuous weeks on and off the airwaves.

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Kevin Rennie: The mysterious firing of a CT state employee who serves the nation in a dangerous time courant.com/2026/04/18/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: The mysterious firing of a CT state employee who serves the nation in a dangerous time

Compare Diaz Rosario to Terrence Cheng, who is $440,000 Strategic Advisor to Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents.

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Kevin Rennie: A hothouse of lust, rivalries and neglect of duties in a CT state building courant.com/2026/03/28/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: A hothouse of lust, rivalries and neglect of duties in a CT state building

Some of the people we trust with extraordinary authority over our lives use it to make a mess of their own.

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Kevin Rennie: Alleged sex scandal dismays CT state police, top state officials

Regrettably, state agencies do not have an encouraging record of investigating themselves when trouble arrives.

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Kevin Rennie: In CT, a fight against ‘surveillance creep’ that is spreading everywhere

We need not be relegated to spectators or inadvertent snitches. 

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Kevin Rennie: How a state trooper’s alleged act at a CT airport undermines confidence in the system

From the outside, threats to the agency’s professionalism don’t come from what they call each other, but from how they conduct themselves when vested with the vast authority a free people bestow on...

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Kevin Rennie: The mystery of a Greek passport belonging to a high-profile CT man convicted of crime

There is a passport somewhere that could allow him to gain entrance to the 27-nation European Union.

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Kevin Rennie: A sweet $2.6M CT contract and a list of approved contractors. A tangled web

They did not want to know then and they prefer to feign ignorance to action.

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Kevin Rennie: The last excruciating mile of the road to justice in Connecticut. Money at the center.

The trial will not resemble anything you see on television. This will be a workmanlike exercise that goes on for weeks.

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Kevin Rennie: CT’s colossal embarrassment and months of fruitless trouble

Some months can seem like each headache is interrupted by a worse one in the state’s scramble.

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Kevin Rennie: Why we must not end the investigation into a sordid CT matter

In the months that followed the initiation of litigation, state officials ridiculed the claims of unfair treatment.

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Kevin Rennie: Who will protect you from the creeping menace of traffic cameras? courant.com/2025/09/06/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: There’s a creeping menace in Connecticut. The question is about who will protect you

We can do something to show we are paying attention and are willing to act.

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CT top utility regulator admits controversial text messages at center of court case deleted

The Courant first reported on the text message exchange in February and since then the utilities have been trying to obtain the draft referred to by Gillett

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Kevin Rennie: The strange path of a perilous Connecticut scandal

We have now entered a perilous phase in the search for a credible explanation.

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Rennie: Firing range used by CT state police shut down due to high lead levels in troopers

That it has been detected now, 25 years into the 21st century is a gross dereliction of the most basic safety standards and obligations to law enforcement officers. 

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Rennie: Firing range used by CT state police shut down due to high lead levels in troopers

That it has been detected now, 25 years into the 21st century is a gross dereliction of the most basic safety standards and obligations to law enforcement officers. 

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