{"id":533454,"date":"2010-04-18T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.76273"},"modified":"2010-04-18T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:48:41","slug":"rell-judicial-nominee-allegedly-subverted-prosecutors-unit-after-being-passed-over-for-promotion-columnist-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533454","title":{"rendered":"Rell Judicial Nominee Allegedly ‘Subverted’ Prosecutors’ Unit After Being Passed Over For Promotion, Columnist Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Leslie of Wallingford, a state prosecutor who now is one of Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s 10 new nominees for Superior Court judgeships, was passed over for a promotion in 2002 and later began “subverting” the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the chief state’s attorney’s office, according to sworn testimony in a 2005 deposition by Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Paul Murray.
 
Courant columnist Kevin Rennie made that disclosure, and called Leslie’s judicial nomination into question, in his Sunday Courant column – which can be read by clicking here.
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Leslie, who declined making any comment to Rennie for the column,  is up for a confirmation hearing before the legislature’s judiciary committee Friday at 10 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
 
Rennie reported on problems Leslie had because of his prosecution of a Stamford ophthalmologist, Richard Weber, who was arrested in 2002 on a charge of making false Medicaid claims. The case, which Weber’s lawyer called a “travesty,” was dismissed in 2003.  Weber sued the state over his prosecution and won a $725,000 payment in 2008 to compensate him, Rennie reported.<\/p>\n

The negative comments from Murray about Leslie’s actions were included in a deposition transcript that was among documents from the Weber lawsuit file that Rennie reviewed.
 
Rennie also has his own blog site, called Daily Ructions, on which he posted a separate item Sunday about Leslie. The Daily Ructions item, which can be read by clicking here<\/a>, includes links to a four-part copy of Leslie’s 2005 deposition in the Weber lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Leslie of Wallingford, a state prosecutor who now is one of Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s 10 new nominees for Superior Court judgeships, was passed over for a promotion in 2002 and later began “subverting” the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the chief state’s attorney’s office, according to sworn testimony in a 2005 deposition by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533454","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\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}