{"id":247682,"date":"2010-01-29T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70725"},"modified":"2010-01-29T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:32:54","slug":"big-loss-for-the-state-will-it-have-repercussions-for-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247682","title":{"rendered":"Big loss for the state &#8212; will it have repercussions for Blumenthal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the story from Courant.com:<\/p>\n<p>The state must pay more than $18 million to the owner of an&nbsp;East Hartford computer company that state officials had accused of skimping on parts, a Superior Court jury in&nbsp;Waterbury decided Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, the state sued Computers Plus Center Inc. seeking $1.75 million in damages. At the time,&nbsp;Attorney General Richard Blumenthal&nbsp;claimed that, for more than 10 years, the company had been selling the state computers that lacked the proper parts.<\/p>\n<p>After filing the lawsuit Blumenthal turned the case over to then-Chief State&#8217;s Attorney Christopher Morano for a criminal investigation against the owner of the company, Gina Malapanis of Hebron. The results of that investigation could not be determined early Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>When Malapanis was arrested in June 2004, Blumenthal said: &#8220;My office will continue to vigorously pursue our lawsuit against Computers Plus center and its owner to recover money that the state alleges was wrongfully charged. I remain determined to win a full and fair recovery of taxpayers funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malapanis filed a countersuit against the state and it was that lawsuit that the jury decided Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal is currently a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the story from Courant.com: The state must pay more than $18 million to the owner of an&nbsp;East Hartford computer company that state officials had accused of skimping on parts, a Superior Court jury in&nbsp;Waterbury decided Friday. In 2003, the state sued Computers Plus Center Inc. seeking $1.75 million in damages. At the time,&nbsp;Attorney General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}