Kosta Diamantis, a former top-ranking CT official, faces 22 federal charges, including extortion, bribery and making false statements. Get Connecticut public policy news at your fingertips.

Kosta Diamantis and Chris Ziogas are charged with conspiring to have a 2020 audit of Helen Zervas' optometry practice cancelled. Get Connecticut public policy news at your fingertips.

Diamantis and Ziogas told the CT Mirror last year that there was nothing illegal about the $599,000 check they hand-delivered to state officials to cover the Medicaid overpayments to Zervas’ office.

Diamantis also allegedly squeezed Hartford officials on another contract for the city’s $170 million Bulkeley High School project. In that case, he convinced Hartford’s school building ...

Diamantis was fired from his OPM position in October 2021 after administration officials learned that his daughter, Anastasia, had gotten a job with Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo’s ...

Konstantinos Diamantis, Connecticut’s former state deputy budget director, asked a judge on Friday to delay his upcoming corruption trial so that he and his attorney have time to build a defense ...

Diamantis said in an email Wednesday the unions were primarily concerned with Lamont’s administration keeping its campaign commitments to utilize labor agreements on public works projects, ...

Diamantis had overseen the distribution of more than a billion dollars in school construction grants, and the federal grand jury subpoenas were exploring how some of those contracts were awarded ...

For years, Kosta Diamantis, the former director of Connecticut’s school grants program, advocated for a policy that would allow certain construction companies to claim more of the profits from ...

Kosta Diamantis and Chris Ziogas are charged with conspiring to have a 2020 audit of Helen Zervas' optometry practice cancelled. advertisement. The Connecticut Mirror.

Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, a former state lawmaker and deputy budget director, was arrested by federal officials on Thursday and charged with extorting contractors on school construction ...