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Despite objections that it is unaffordable, an arbitration award for the newly formed Assistant Attorney Generals union passed the House and Senate Wednesday.The following is a sampling of the top salaries being paid $206,116; $205,309; $204,523; $203,172; $202,066

On March 27, 2019 Christine Stuart of CT News Junkie reported

Arbitration Award For Assistant Attorneys General Approved

Excerpt The debate Wednesday focused mostly on giving 14 department heads within the Attorney Generals office $6,000 stipends in 2020 and $12,000 stipends in 2021. Those stipends are on top of 3.5 percent wage increases and 2 percent step increases over the next two years for all 200 assistant attorney generals. The total cost of the award is $3.3 million over the next two years.

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Posted to: Labor, Legal, State Budget, State Capitol

If you are wondering how much those in the Attorney Generals office are being paid, you can visit the State of Connecticuts website visit the website Transparency Connecticut, then click on Compensation, once on the website, click on ADVANCED SEARCH, Next click on the arrow in the box marked ALL AGENCIES, Next click on ATTORNEY GENERAL, Next click on the word SEARCH, Next go to the column headed TOTAL and click on the column headed TOTAL twice. This will bring you to the highest paid which includes annual salaries of $206,116; $205,309; $204,523; $203,172; $202,066, etc. Twenty five employees are listed on each page. You can then move from page to page by returning to the top of the Column headed TOTAL and click on the Arrow above it.

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On May 7, 2019 Jon Lender of the hartford courant ct reported

Jon Lender Auditors slam Access Health CT for excessive severance payments but agency is defiant

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There appears to be no end to government waste of Taxpayer Dollars as the following Audit discloses coupled with the payout referenced in the article by the Hartford Business Journal which follows

On March 9, 2019 at 4:13 PM Steven Goode reported for the hartford courant ct

Audit finds Hartford failed to collect or account for millions of dollars going back decades

Excerpt The audit concluded that the revenue collections unit failed to collect $1.8 million in old Hartford Police Department private duty jobs revenue prior to 2015. That money was written off as noncollectable. https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-independent-audit-lost-revenue-20190308-nxgiongmvrfphl6ez6mbugge4y-story.html

On April 17, 2019 Joe Cooper of HartfordBusiness.com | Hartford Business Journal Online reported

CT projected to pay $45.6M in Hartford debt aid in fiscal 2020

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