Former Trump Justice Department Official to Serve as Lamont Legal Counsel.

Former federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy will join the Governor Ned Lamont’s office as his legal counsel. Dannehy is a familiar figure in Connecticut law enforcement. She was among the leading prosecutors on the team that investigated and convicted former Governor John G. Rowland of corruption in 2004.

Dannehy has also worked for UTC–now part of Raytheon–and served a tour with George Jepsen at the start of his tenure as attorney general.

Dannehy joined William Barr’s justice department in 2019 to work on the widely disparaged investigation of the FBI’s investigation of contacts between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian agents and surrogates. Dannehy resigned from that investigation last fall, but has never disclosed a reason for joining the discreditable Barr operation.

Dannehy will replace Robert Clark, who Lamont nominated to a spot on the state’s Appellate Court. Clark enjoyed the advantage of interviewing others interested in filling that vacancy.