HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on June 7, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding insurance rate hike requests announced today by the Connecticut Insurance Department from seven health insurers for plans available on the individual and small group market, both on and off the state-sponsored exchange. Collectively, the plans cover nearly 200,000 lives in Connecticut. The prop  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 8 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release on June 7, 2024: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) today received more than $300 million from the State Bond Commission that will fund several critical and complex environmental initiatives across the state, including State Park upgrades, municipal clean water projects, and an effort to drain high water levels at Portland's J  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 8 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on June 7, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven), and Speaker of the House Matt Ritter (D-Hartford) today announced that the State Bond Commission this morning approved the release of approximately $74 million in state funding to support the fourth round of grants under the Community Investment Fund 2030. This state grant fund was created in 2022 t  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on June 7, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging WILLIAM McNEILLY, 55, of New Haven, with operating an unlicensed money transmittin  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings On June 4 and 6, the Commission met in executive session. The Commission voted to cancel the open meeting scheduled for June 6. * * * Enforcement The Commission made public five closed cases, as follows. For more information, see the case documents in the Enforcement Search System. MUR 7773 COMPLAINANT: Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust; and Kendra  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin issued the following news release on June 7, 2024: Timothy M. O'Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Paul Williams Anti, 61, a citizen of Ghana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 6 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder proceeds of wire fraud. Williams Anti pleaded guilty to the charge on March 14, 2024. Money  more