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without clear policies governing purchases, personnel matters and ethics. During this time, it found that the
Connecticut Port Authority had an improper relationship with a contractor called Seabury Capital. The Connecticut Port Authority paid Seabury Capital over $ 1 million, including a $ 523,000 "success" fee. A Managing Director of Seabury Capital had served on the Board of the Connecticut Port Authority during this time. Said Managing Director agreed to pay an $ 18,500 fine to the Connecticut Office of State Ethics for this scheme. Later, Seabury Capital was fined $ 10,000 for improper gifts to Connecticut Port Authority employees, and a board member, including
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testified that his predecessors knew the initial $ 93 million cost of the partnership was unrealistic. That month, the state government approved another $ 20 million for the State Pier project, bringing its cost to over $ 255 million. In
December 2022, the Connecticut State Contracting Standards Board announced it would investigate how the Connecticut Port Authority handled awarding
262:. Current Chairman David Kooris testified in May 2022 that his predecessors knew that a previous cost projection of $ 93 million was an unrealistic figure. Kooris stated that "there probably should have been more nuance conveyed at that time that it was a preliminary estimate", and that said estimates did not include "
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approval to fill in water between two existing piers, as part of a plan to merge them into one larger pier able to handle larger heavy-lift equipment. At that point, the cost of the project grew to $ 235 million. In May 2022, David Kooris, the
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Connecticut Port Authority Chairman Scott Bates resigned. The following month, Governor Ned Lamont appointed David Kooris to the position of Chairman. In February 2020, the Connecticut Port Authority approved a new redevelopment plan, after 18 months of
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criticized the project's high costs and "lack of transparency on the part of the Port
Authority". An audit in late 2019 found that the Connecticut Port Authority spent thousands of dollars in previous fiscal years on expensive meals and liquor, incurred excessive legal fees and generally acted
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has stated that the project's development has been "a little longer and it was more expensive than we wanted", and by May 2022, said he was "mad as hell" about the increasing cost projections. In July 2021, a
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