{"id":656345,"date":"2010-02-05T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.71151"},"modified":"2010-02-05T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:29:11","slug":"bill-dibella-will-pay-nearly-800000-former-democratic-senator-involved-in-civil-case-regarding-treasurers-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656345","title":{"rendered":"Bill DiBella Will Pay Nearly $800,000; Former Democratic Senator Involved In Civil Case Regarding Treasurer&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Lender and Edmund Mahony have the details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/connecticut\/hc-dibella0205.artfeb05,0,2465322.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/connecticut\/hc-dibella0205.artfeb05,0,2465322.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-656345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KKd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656345","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=656345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}