{"id":639196,"date":"2010-01-22T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70129"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:56:13","slug":"ex-bridgeport-mayor-joe-ganim-released-from-prison-now-living-in-asylum-hill-halfway-house-in-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639196","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim Released From Prison; Now Living In Asylum Hill Halfway House In Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim has been released early from federal prison and is now living at a halfway house in Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>Ganim had always tried to reach the state Capitol by becoming governor, and now he is living not far from the Capitol at a large home on Collins Street<\/p>\n<p>Former Gov. John G. Rowland, who ended up serving time in federal prison himself, said on July 1, 2003 that Ganim had received a fair sentence when he was sent away to prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice was served today with a fair sentencing of former Mayor Joseph Ganim,&#8221; Rowland said back in 2003. &#8220;The city of Bridgeport has been returned to its citizens. The state remains committed to being a partner in the continuing revitalization of the city. We will keep moving forward as we turn the corner on this sad chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Post has been on top of the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-ap-ganim-out-of-prison,0,5363956.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-ap-ganim-out-of-prison,0,5363956.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim has been released early from federal prison and is now living at a halfway house in Hartford. Ganim had always tried to reach the state Capitol by becoming governor, and now he is living not far from the Capitol at a large home on Collins Street Former Gov. John G. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GhC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}