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61 new COVID cases in town
A HOLIDAY TRADITION
Connecticut’s most recent COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 61 positive cases in Berlin, which puts the community in the coronavirus red zone.
The trigger for top-of-thechart red status — where most Connecticut towns and cities now stand — starts at 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. See COVID, A4
Third grader wins state-wide poster contest
On Saturday, Nov. 27, Berlin-Kensington’s four fire companies held their annual tree lighting at Kensington Village. The event featured ornament decorating for kids, food, and, of course, a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. “We would like to thank everyone that came out to make this event a success. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!” the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department wrote in a Facebook post.
Griswold Elementary School third grader Olivia Schweitzer took first place in the Woodsy Owl poster contest for the state of Connecticut. Poster entrees must be sponsored by a local garden club. Olivia’s art was sponsored by the Kensington Garden Club, in which both of her grandmothers are members. Olivia was presented with a Certificate of
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The Berlin Historical Society’s Holiday Fair, featuring tours of the decorated museum, and cookies, confections and gifts for sale, was held Dec. 3 and 4. And the event was a success. “Thank you to all who attended and helped make our Holiday Fair the most profitable of all time,” the Historical Society stated on its Facebook page. “Hoping that next year we can revive the cozy table set up for refreshments and entertainment … It was heartwarming to talk with so many new, younger people who are enthusiastic about local history and want to get involved.” The museum will be open Saturdays, Dec. 11 and 18, from 1 to 4 p.m. Locally-made and Berlin-themed gifts will be available for purchase.
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Smart habits can help fend off illness Keep away: Avoid close contact with people who are sick. And do the same when you don’t feel well. A safe distance can help prevent the spread of bugs and germs that cause infection.
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Cover up: Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve or elbow, not your hands. It may help keep those around you from getting sick. Wash and dry hands: Wash hands often with soap and warm water for 20 seconds.
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Letters to the Editor Impressive Editor : He's only been on Town Council for about a month but I'm already impressed with Councilor Jack Fazzino (D). He communicates constantly with residents via Facebook and Twitter about council proceedings and progress on boards and commissions. Transparency like that is rare, and I greatly appreciate it. Recently, Fazzino gave an extensive update on town infrastructure projects as well as the community/se-
nior center that I've not read even from members of the committee in charge of the project! Councilor Fazzino is leading the charge with insight and perspective. He's serving as a great liaison with the town and is doing a fantastic job. Keep up the good work! Cornel Boudria Letters to the Editor are limited to 300 words. Email letters to news@theberlincitizen.com. The Citizen will print only one letter per person each month. Letters must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday to be considered for publication the following Thursday.
In Brief Blood drives Blood donors are urged to schedule an appointment now by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-733-2767. Upcoming blood drives: Saturday, Dec. 18, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Berlin High School, 139 Patterson Way; Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1 to 6 p.m., at Berlin Congregational Church, 878 Worthington Ridge.
Festival of Wreaths Prince of Peace Lutheran Church's 1st Annual Festival of Wreaths will take place Saturday, Dec. 11, from 2 to 6 p.m., at 1103 Chamberlain
Highway. More than 25 handmade wreaths will be up for grabs. All proceeds will support a youth mission trip to Minneapolis during the summer of 2022.
Holistic health A benefit Holistic Health Fair will take place Sunday, Dec. 12, from 12 to 4 p.m., at the VFW Hall, 7 Northwest Drive, in Plainville. There is no entrance fee, but attendees are asked to bring a donation for the Plainville Food Pantry. For more information, call Shirley Bloethe at 860-989-0033, email YourHolisticEvents@ gmail.com or visit PassItOnLLC.com.
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The Queen Ann Nzinga Center, Inc., which provides arts enrichment activities for children age 5 to 17, is accepting new participants. The center promotes positive youth development among children of all races and abilities primarily in the greater Plainville, Berlin, Bristol and New Britain area.
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BERLIN- Melvin Joel Campbell, 75, of Berlin, husband of Ida Campbell, passed away on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 at Hartford Hospital. Born in Maine, he was the son of the late Joseph and Mary (Labbe) Campbell. Melvin was a Berlin resident most of his life. He was formerly employed at Pratt & Whitney and later employed at Luther Ridge Assisted Living for eleven years before retiring. He was a member of St. Paul Church. Melvin enjoyed cooking, working in his yard, and spending time with his grandchildren. He loved his dogs, and his time working with the residents at Luther Ridge. Surviving are his wife, Ida (Gorneault) Campbell; three children, Trystan (Amy) Campbell of Rocky Hill, Kimberly (Sebastiano) Rigano of Middletown, and Gregory Campbell of New Britain; a sister, Virginia (Rocky) Pelletier of Prospect; five grandchildren, Devin Rigano, Dante Rigano,
BERLINPatricia C. Kiniry, 68, of Berlin, passed away Friday, November 26, 2021, at home surrounded by her family and beloved dog, Anna. She was born in New Britain, the daughter of the late Dr. John Kiniry and Patricia (Walsh) Kiniry. Tricia graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas, University of Connecticut, and earned her Masters Of Science in Nursing Degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a dedicated, caring nurse before retiring from Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in 2020. Tricia appreciated beautiful things made evident in the homes she created and her style for entertaining. She loved to paint and draw and shared her talent with family and friends. She loved to travel and explore new places. She was grateful for her many friends that helped her along her journey. Her love for children was always present, especially with her nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews, Fenn, John, Laura, Teddy, Shannon, Tynan, Alicia, Bridget, Jackson, Shawn, Leigh, Meryl, Aedan, Claire, Luke, Erin, Paul, Kevin, John, Kristy, Patsy, Joey,
BERLIN- Erika Witzel, 85, died peacefully Thanksgiving weekend to join her husband Hans and daughter’s family dog Rex. Erika was born in Germany residing in Berlin for most of the 59 years. She leaves behind a daughter Christine Pelletier & husband Dale, her Kaylee (granddaughter), her best friend of over 50 years Christine Ravizza and her daughter Kendra, family & friends in Germany along with the friends she came to know here. She will be dearly missed. We would like to thank Jerome Home & Constellation Hospice for the wonderful care & support. There are no services scheduled since the family wishes to mourn and celebrate her life in private. In lieu of flowers you can donate to Kaylee’s college fund or a berlin veteran post. She was always thinking of her granddaughter’s future and the military. Paul A. Shaker Funeral Home, 764 Farmington Ave, New Britain, has charge of arrangements.
Domenic Rigano, Austin Rigano, and Dakota Campbell; and many nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021 at 10 AM at St. Paul Church in Kensington. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. EricksonHansen Funeral Home of Berlin is in charge of arrangements. Please share a memory of Melvin with the family in the online guest book @ www. ericksonhansenberlin.com
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Schools Honor roll Mercy High School in Middletown named the following local students to its honor roll for the first term. Grade 10, high honors: Amelia Andruskiewicz. Grade 11, high honors: Abigayle DeVivo. Grade 12, highest honors: Grace Cink, Katherine Rigsby; high honors Alexandra Kelley; honors : Meaghan Bertolami.
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Clash by Stefanowski and Lamont over testing contract makes issue of ethics code Not yet a declared candidate for governor, Republican Bob Stefanowski is running hard at Gov. Ned Lamont over the state’s two COVID19 testing contracts with Sema4, a company in which first lady Annie Lamont’s venture capital firm, Oak HC/FT, is a minority investor.
early months were certified to do COVID-19 testing, Sema4 among them. The state quickly contracted with all four, the terms negotiated by the comptroller’s office. “I think we saved a lot of lives by moving fast,” Lamont said. Stefanowski said the testing capacity provided by Sema4 came at the cost of public confidence in government.
Stefanowski’s criticism, delivered via talk radio, opinion pieces and social media, has prompted the first sharp exchanges between the Democratic governor and the Republican who is expected to challenge him in 2022, a rematch of the 2018 race narrowly won by Lamont.
“If I were the head of Sema4, or if I were the head of the state of Connecticut, I would have been damn sure I would have had a lot of disclosure. I would have had a lot of discussion around it,” Stefanowski said. “And I would have been very sure that they were the only one on Earth that could provide it.”
In interviews with CT Mirror, Stefanowski and Lamont clashed over whether the governor, who has recused himself from transactions affecting companies in which Annie Lamont is invested, should have barred Sema4 from providing what then was scarce COVID testing.
The early exchanges between Lamont, a declared candidate for reelection, and Stefanowski, who shows every sign of planning to become one, are bringing into the spotlight an Office of State Ethics wounded by staffing cuts and an ethics code drawn by lawmakers
that narrowly defines conflicts of interest. No “exception” was required for Sema4 to contract with Connecticut under state ethics laws or the 16-page advisory opinion that offers guidance to the Lamonts as they navigate the difficulties inherent in the marriage of a governor intent on growing the tech sector in Connecticut and a venture capitalist who makes a good portion of her living there. As Lamont notes, his wife is someone other governors might like to know, a potential source of leads about promising companies they might like to see in their states. “Annie has helped create dozens of great companies representing thousands of good-paying jobs,” Lamont said. “And it’s a lot easier to locate those jobs out of state so there’s no optics, no perception, no problems. And that’s what we’re doing.”
incentives available to a financial technology company, Digital Currency Group, relocating from New York to Stamford. Oak HC/FT was an early investor, though no longer. House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora, R-North Branford, is the only one of the legislature’s top leaders who says the Sema4 contract doesn’t pass a “smell test,” even if it violates no ethics rules. Candelora says the rules should be reviewed, but he offered no suggestion for changes. Others suggested that Stefanowski was playing politics. After taking office in 2019, Lamont posed a series of questions about complying with the ethics code and agreed to place his investments under the control of an outside attorney, a step that ethics officials say amounted to a blind trust. The advisory opinion issued on May 16, 2019 by the Office of State Ethics advised
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“Her venture capital portfolio can do business with 49 other states. They can do business with any country in the world,” Stefanowski said. “I mean, why did we need to get an exception that they’d be allowed to do business with Connecticut?”
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As a result, legislators are free to vote and advocate on issues of interest to their professions and employers without public disclosure. Last year, the Office of State Ethics proposed a bill that would have required lawmakers to state for the record when their employer had a direct interest in a bill, but died from inaction in the pandemic-shortened session.
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Peter Lewandowski, the executive director of the Office of State Ethics, said the underpinnings of the ethics code are a mix of prohibitions and transparency. Disclosure, he said, may be the best protection for the public.
them — as a source of income. In the case of the Lamonts, their financial disclosure statement lists three dozen investment funds with names like Oak HC/FT Associates LLP, Oak HC/FT Associates LLP II, and so forth. They are sources of income to Annie Lamont, not individual investments in companies such as Sema4. Recognizing the limits of the statutory disclosure statements, the Office of State Ethics and the Lamonts agreed on a more useful, if voluntary, filing: A recusal list of companies Oak HC/ FT and Annie Lamont provided to the governor’s office.
According to the advisory opinion, the list is meant as “a checklist on a case-bycase basis to assist in identiThe current ethics rules refying instances where require certain state officials cusal by the Governor or and their spouses, including Mrs. Lamont would be necthe governor and lawmakers, essary.” to file annual reports disclosing sources of income, A review of the list by CT but the reports are of limited Mirror found that Sema4 use in identifying potential was the only one doing busiconflicts. A lawyer, insurance ness with the state, and Labroker or Realtor, for exammont says neither he nor his ple, would identify their firm wife played any role in Se— not the clients who pay
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ma4 seeking or obtaining a state contract, nor were they in a position to discourage Sema4 from responding to the state’s testing RFP. “Oak has 2%,” Lamont said. Stefanowski “makes it sound like we own this fricking company. You know, Annie and Ned Lamont had like one-tenth of 1%. We’re not on a board. We’re not anything here. And what do you want us to do?” The two figures, 2% and one-tenth of 1%, are not contradictory, because Oak’s
stake and Annie Lamont’s are not synonymous. Oak HC/FT or the Lamonts have not disclosed the firm’s investments in Sema4, but SEC filings show its stake was worth $66 million when the company went public in July 2021 with a valuation of $3 billion. The firm’s stake on that day was equal to 2.2% of the valuation. The governor’s second assertion that his family’s benefit from the Sema4 contracts was indirect and far lower, perhaps one-tenth of 1%, cannot be corroborated
by what is public, but it reflects how venture capital firms make their money and why the benefits of specific contracts to a portfolio company cannot be neatly ascribed to Oak or Annie Lamont.
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“I’m still figuring it out, to tell you the truth. Last year, you had to move fast. If you didn’t move fast, we would have been dead,” Lamont said. “But then you’ve got to show the decisions you made, why you made them and how they came out so people have confidence in what those decisions were, right?”
Neither the governor nor first lady would be interviewed prior to the publicaVenture capital firms typical- tion by CT Mirror of a detailed examination of the Sely raise money from insurma4 contracts and Oak HC/ ance companies, pension FT’s investments. More refunds, educational endowments and wealthy investors. cently, Lamont answered limited questions in two Their compensation comes brief interviews when apfrom a share of any profits proached by a CT Mirror rerealized by their investors, porter after public events. usually between 15% and 30%, and management fees, Lamont had no opinion on usually 2% to 2.5% of the the sufficiency of the ethics
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taxpayers of Connecticut, prior to entering into it,” he said. Max Reiss, the governor’s communications director, said the administration followed the guidance of the ethics office, and the existence of Oak HC/FT’s investment in Sema4 became public knowledge with the publication of a story by The Hartford Courant on June 14, 2020. “Every measure was taken to ensure proper notification and compliance, both with the Office of State Ethics and the rigorous recusal process which was laid out in the early months of the Lamont administration,” Reiss said. “I think the front page of the Sunday edition of The Hartford Courant is a significant version of disclosure.”
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So, he clarified later, a governor simply being a shareholder in a company should not bar it from state business. Connecticut currently has no requirement that elected officials disclose the value of their investments. The Office of State Ethics proposed a decade ago that the disclosure statements require listing investments according to a range of values. It did not pass.
Stefanowski, an investor who has held high-ranking exec- (The legislature also has passed budgets that reduced utive posts at GE and other
Less aggressive on the issue is former House Republican Leader Themis Klarides, a declared gubernatorial candidate whose marriage poses its own complications: Her husband, Greg Butler, is the executive vice president and general counsel and a shareholder in Eversource, a utility regulated by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, whose members are appointed by the governor. A campaign spokesman, Sebastian Rougemont, said there is no conflict as utilities are regulated by PURA, not the governor. “Themis’ marriage, while immaterial in this regard, is well known to the public and does not excuse Gov. Lamont for his failure to be transparent,” he said. Klarides declined to be interviewed. Stefanowski initially declined comment on whether
a governor’s marriage to a top Eversource executive would be a concern, then said, “The governor should be beyond reproach when it comes to potential conflicts of interest with any company regulated by or doing business with the state of Connecticut.” Candelora, who succeeded Klarides as the House minority leader, said the Lamonts’ investments should lead to a reappraisal of ethics laws, though his bigger concern may lie with the Freedom of Information Act: The refusal of the comptroller’s office to release pricing information it deemed proprietary added to cynicism about the contract. “The way the Sema4 procurement occurred, and the lack of transparency surrounding it, does pose problems and, I think, points to some of the issues that we may have with our ethics See Ethics, A17
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House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, said Stefanowski’s attempt to characterize the Sema4 testing contract as profiteering was unsupported by the facts. “It’s not like the Lamonts needed this company to do well for their personal future,” Ritter said. “I don’t see it. I don’t get it. There’s no
evidence to back that up. It also sorts of defies logic.” Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, agreed with Stefanowski on one point: Both men say the State Contracting Standards Board, a watchdog that Lamont has let languish with just one employee, should get more funding. Asked if the board should have reviewed the Sema4 contract, Looney replied, “I don’t want to comment on that.”
House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, said every indication is that the Sema4 contract was not a conflict of interest under state law, and it met a desperate need.
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