Criminal Justice Commission Will Not Discuss Executive Assistant Hire at Meeting.

The Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) meets today. Its published agenda reveals it will call itself to order, approve minutes from a previous meeting, go into closed session to interview candidates for prosecution positions similar to special accommodations for militaries, and appoint several prosecutors, and adjourn.

The commission will not address Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo’s 2020 decision to hire Anastatia Diamantis as a $99,000-a-year executive assistant. Ms. Diamantis is the daughter of Kostantinos Diamantis, the deputy state budget director who retired upon being suspended from that powerful position over a “personnel matter.” Kostantinos Diamantis told the CT Mirror that Colangelo’s hiring Ms. Diamantis was a “pretext” for suspending him.

Inquiries into the sordid matter were conducted by top advisors in Governor Ned Lamont’s. Members of CJC are oddly incurious into their agencies role.

Posted November 18, 2021.