McCaw Joins UConn Faculty as Adjunct in Master of Public Policy Program.

Melissa McCaw, Governor Ned Lamont’s former budget chief, will teach a class in budgeting at the University of Connecticut. McCaw served as Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management from January 2019 until she resigned in February to become head of finance for East Hartford.

McCaw will teach Public Finance and Budgeting to Master of Public Administration Fellows on five Saturdays between October 22nd and December 3rd at UConn’s Hartford branch.

At OPM, McCaw presided over two programs, school construction and the State Pier project, that are the subject of federal criminal investigations.

McCaw’s friend and colleague Kostantinos Diamantis expressed interest in the MPA Fellows program, according to an April 22, 2021, email the sent to Mohamad Alkrady, Director of the School of Public Policy. Diamantis told Alkadry that he was not the only Diamantis interested in the MPA program. “Also my daughter who is EA to Chief States Attorney is also interested I added her to this email.” [sic]

Anastasia Diamantis is no longer an executive assistant to the Chief State’s Attorney. Richard Colangelo retired as Chief State’s Attorney after coming under fire in an independent investigation of his hiring of Ms. Diamantis in 2020. Kostantinos Diamantis was suspended from OPM and retired from his position as head of the state’s school construction financing program in 2021. He has attempted to rescind his retirement.

Published August 25, 2022.