Rich Rochlin, the Hartford area attorney who has at least 10 clients in the D-SNAP investigation into state workers who accepted federal disaster benefits, complains that Capitol reporters were sent a letter from Gov Malloy’s legal counsel, Andrew McDonald, via Communications Director Andrew Dobam, 35 minutes before he got it.
Here’s Rochlin’s statement: “The fact that Malloy’s political machine sent this letter to the press without having sent it to me first belies Mr. Malloy’s assertions that this investigation is not political and that his administration is open and honest. With lives hanging in the balance, Mr. McDonald has chosen to put politics over people and has conclusively demonstrated that he is schilling for votes for Mr. Malloy on the backs of the hard working families he sought to terminate earlier this year. If this does not support my call for an independent investigation, I do not know what does.”