John Grosvenor Rowland is an American politician,author,former radio host,and convicted felon who served as the 86th governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004.
Philip Anthony Giordano is the former Republican mayor of Waterbury,Connecticut,and a convicted sex offender. He was born in Caracas,Venezuela,to Italian parents and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old.
Michael "Mickey" Sherman is a Connecticut-based American criminal defense attorney. He is known for his representation of Michael Skakel. Sherman's client was found guilty. In October 2013,a judge ordered a retrial for Skakel,citing Sherman's "glaring ineffectiveness";the State appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court,which reinstated the conviction on December 30,2016,as reported by the New York Times on December 31,2016. On May,4,2018,the conviction was overturned by the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
Lee Alexander was an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Syracuse,New York for 16 years.
Jason L. McCoy is the former mayor of Vernon,Connecticut,and a trial lawyer. In 2009,McCoy was elected to his first term in 2007. McCoy was re-elected as mayor. He had served on the Vernon Town Council and was the deputy mayor of Vernon from 2005 to 2007. In 2009,McCoy was one of six mayors in Connecticut chosen by the Governor M. Jodi Rell to work closely with state officials and lawmakers to identify savings and recommend mandate relief to help close Connecticut's state budget shortfall. McCoy served as mayor of a municipality that holds town meetings to pass the mayor's yearly proposed municipal budget,which can then be sent to referendum for approval by privately cast ballot. During McCoy's two terms as mayor of Vernon he proposed and passed four municipal budgets. The Town of Vernon municipal budgets during McCoy's terms as mayor resulted in the municipal tax rate or mil rate needed to fund the municipal budget being reduced in the 2008–09,2009–10 budgets,the 2010–11 tax rate or mil rate remained the same. In the 2011–12 budget the tax rate was cut which resulted in a taxes cut to the taxpayers in the Town of Vernon,Connecticut. The 2011–12 budget proposal was passed and adopted at the annual town meeting as opposed to being sent to referendum.
Pedro E. Segarra is a Puerto Rican-American politician and lawyer who served as the 66th mayor of Hartford,Connecticut. Prior to becoming mayor,Segarra was president of Hartford's City Council. He succeeded former Mayor Eddie Perez who resigned after he was convicted by a state Superior Court jury of bribery and extortion in a political corruption case,though Perez' convictions eventually were reversed by the Connecticut Appellate Court. Segarra was sworn in as mayor on June 25,2010,and won re-election on November 8,2011. In 2015,Luke Bronin defeated Segarra for the Democratic mayoral nomination. He is Hartford's second mayor of Puerto Rican ancestry and the first openly gay mayor of the city. He is also the second openly gay mayor of an American state capital city.
Joseph Peter Ganim is an American Democratic politician,former attorney,and convicted felon who is currently serving as the mayor of Bridgeport,Connecticut. He was elected mayor of the city six times serving from 1991 to 2003,when he resigned after being convicted on federal felony corruption charges. In 2015,Ganim mounted a successful political comeback and was again elected Bridgeport mayor. Ganim was sworn in as mayor on December 1,2015. Ganim has twice unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Connecticut,running in 1994 and 2018.
Ernest E. Newton is an American politician in Bridgeport,Connecticut. Newton served for seventeen years in the Connecticut General Assembly,serving in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1988 to 2003 and in the Connecticut State Senate from 2003 to 2006. He pleaded guilty to federal felony corruption charges in September 2005 and served several years in federal prison. Newton was released in February 2010 and in 2012 unsuccessfully attempted a political comeback,losing in the primary in a race for his old state Senate seat. He pleaded guilty to three campaign finance violations in 2019,relating to his 2012 legislative campaign.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012,behind New York and California. A study published by the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 ranked Illinois as the second most corrupt state in the nation,with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison.
The following table lists the individuals who served as mayor of Hartford,Connecticut,their political party affiliations,and their dates in office,as well as other information.
Sara Cecilia Bronin is an American lawyer,professor,and architect. She is the chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
Luke Aaron Bronin is an American politician and lawyer who was the 67th mayor of Hartford,Connecticut,serving from January 1,2016,to January 1,2024.
Jasiel F. Correia II is a former mayor of Fall River,Massachusetts. He was arrested twice on charges related to fraud and extortion while in office. Defeated in the November 2019 mayoral election,his term expired on January 6,2020. In May 2021,Correia was convicted of multiple federal charges in a trial held in Boston;on September 21,2021,Correia was sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. On April 22,2022,Correia reported to a Federal Correctional Institution to begin serving his six-year sentence.
William A. Tomasso,also known as Billy or Bill,is an American construction executive. Tomasso along with the Peter N. Ellef,chief of staff to state governor John G. Rowland,pled guilty on charges related to fast-tracking state contracts to Tomasso's firm in 2006.
Paul Pisasale is a former mayor of the City of Ipswich in Queensland,Australia,and convicted extortionist. Pisasale was mayor of Ipswich from 2004 to 2017,making him one of Queensland's longest-serving mayors,and was last elected in 2016 with 83.45% of the popular vote. He resigned as mayor in 2017 following a raid on his office by the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission. He was subsequently charged with corruption in 2017. He was committed to stand trial on a number of other charges in 2019,including charges of sexual assault where he was accused of "unlawfully and indecently" assaulting an Ipswich woman,and charges of perjury. Pisasale subsequently pleaded guilty to these charges which included two counts of sexual assault,official corruption,unlawful drug possession,27 counts of fraud,secret commission by an agent,and fraud of property.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Hartford,Connecticut.
