Former state Senate majority leader William DiBella will pay nearly $800,000 to settle a long-running civil case regarding a large payment that he received in the state treasury scandal.
The case dates back to the tenure of Republican Paul Silvester, who was appointed as state treasurer by then-Gov. John G. Rowland after Republican Chris Burnham stepped down. Silvester later lost the 1998 race for treasurer to Democrat Denise Nappier and documents said that DiBella, a Democrat, secretly helped the Republican in that race.
Jon Lender and Edmund Mahony have the details at http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-dibella0205.artfeb05,0,2465322.story