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Inquiry Sought on 1 Long Wharf Lease
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Business New Haven
6/23/2003
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - State ethics officials have asked for an audit of "certain irregularities" in the state Department of Public Works' handling of an office lease they say may have cost Connecticut taxpayers as much as $700,000. In June 1999, public works officials failed to meet a deadline to exercise a lease-renewal option for offices at One Long Wharf for the state Department of Children & Families. Consequently they negotiated a new lease including an additional $700,000 in rent payments over five years to building owner Matthews Ventures, headed by controversial millionaire Robert V. Matthews, a longtime friend of Gov. John G. Rowland.
The request for an inquiry came in the form of a June 19 letter from Ethics Commission Executive Director Alan S. Plofsky to state Auditors Robert G. Jaekle and Kevin P. Johnston.
Matthews has recently been the subject of unwanted media attention about Rowland having accepted free vacation accommodations in Matthews' home in Palm Beach, Fla. In 1991.
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