From the Hartford Courant:

Late Thursday night, as the Democrat-controlled state Senate debated and then rejected a Republican-sponsored resolution to create a new internal committee to investigate allegations of misconduct against members of the chamber, two Democratic senators were notably absent.

Suddenly missing, when the ethics proposal came up, were the two Democratic senators whose recent conduct has raised prominent ethical questions — Thomas Gaffey of Meriden and Joseph Crisco of Woodbridge.

Crisco was fined $4,000 on Wednesday by the State Elections Enforcement Commission for violating state election laws by falsely signing sworn documents for others involved in his re-election campaign, and by allowing the secretary of his campaign treasurer to sign the treasurer’s name to a sworn affidavit.

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