(Conn. GOP Gov.) Rowland Partner Got Contracts

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Rowland Partner Got Contracts

Paving Contractor Received $900,000 In State Work After Land Deal With Governor

(REPUBLICAN) Gov. John G. Rowland was involved in the late 1990s in a lucrative investment partnership that included a contractor who got more than $900,000 in state contracts after going into business with the governor.

Rowland's partners were Anthony R. Cocchiola, the owner of Cocchiola Paving of Watertown; Michael H. Cicchetti, a politically connected Waterbury lawyer whose specialties include real estate development; and Robert Capanna, a now-deceased businessman and landowner in the Prospect area where the partnership operated. In a statement released Thursday in response to reporters' questions, Rowland described the three men as friends...

Lori Price
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1. one thing I love about New England, as an ex Bostonion, is the

neighborly-ness of government corruption. I mean no offense. I remember Gov Volpe's administration in MA awarding the highway contracts to ....Volpe family construction comanies (a brother I think). Many of the highways went literally no where for years. We all laughed, it was so obvious. Instead of jail, former Gov Volpe was made Ambassador to the Vatican to think about it.