Mounds remains on state payroll “to assist with the transition.” Friday final day.

Paul Mounds, Governor Ned Lamont’s former chief of staff, remains on the state payroll. Mounds continues to receive more than $4,000 a week from taxpayers–plus the state’s generous employee benefits.

Lamont spokesman Adam Joseph tells Daily Ructions that Mounds “is still an active state employee. Paul agreed to work through the month of January to assist with the transition.” The job ends Friday, February 3rd.

It’s an unusual arrangement. The governor announced on November 15th that Mounds’s deputy, Jonathan Dach, would serve as chief of staff in the second Lamont administration. That announcement, a week after Lamont’s re-election, provided seven weeks for the transition to a deputy. It was not enough in the curious world of the governor’s office.

Rebel Dog Coffee Co. in East Hartford has served an auxiliary state office as Mounds assists with the transition to his longtime deputy.

Published February 1, 2023.