Connecticut Democrats Hire Consultant 1 in New York Corruption Scandal.

Connecticut Democrats have announced that Chris Pitts “has joined our team as Interim Data Director.” Pitts, who federal law enforcement authorities identified as a conduit, a mule, a stooge in a bribery scandal that shook New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration and brought the 2018 conviction of the Democrat’s top aide, Joseph Percoco.

Connecticut Democrat Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., was also snagged in the scandal. Kelly made $300,000 in payments to Percoco’s wife through Pitts for sham energy education work in exchange for Kelly getting access to her influential husband, once referred to as Mario Cuomo’s third son. Pitts, a Canterbury Democrat, was named at Kelly’s trial.

State Democrats will be keeping Pitts on the payroll after they find a permanent data chief. He’ll be doing “some organizing in the second congressional district for the 2020 election cycle.”