Who is Paying “hush money” to Kosta Diamantis in Greece?
In 2020 Chief State’s Attorney Richard J. Colangelo Jr. hired Anastasia Diamantis, the daughter of Kostas Diamantis, who just fled to Greece, as an administrative assistant at $100K a year. Several officials at the Division of Criminal Justice told Colangelo not to hire the daughter of Kostas Diamantis, the deputy secretary of the Office of Policy and Management appointed by Gov Lamont, to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest, according to a report issued by Stan Twardy, who conducted an independent investigation.
In exchange for hiring Anastasia, Kosta got raises for Colangelo and his employees. In 2022 Colangelo resigned as Chief State’s Attorney, yet was able to keep his generous State Pension, which he collects to this day. In 2025 Colangelo agreed to pay a mere $7,000.00 fine after he was subjected to discipline by the Office of State Ethics and Justice Andrew McDonald, chair of the Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission, a panel with the authority to fire or discipline State’s attorneys. A slap on the wrist!
Kosta Diamantis was a fully licensed Connecticut attorney when he committed his crimes. After he was found guilty he surrendered his law license. Richard J. Colangelo is still a fully licensed Connecticut attorney. His law license was never suspended, nor was he ever referred for disciplinary action against his law license, unlike New Haven criminal defense attorney Richard Silverstein, who was recently suspended for one year for bouncing a $250 check on his IOLTA account. Silverstein largely represented New Haven’s African American community, and the locals in New Haven were furious at Judge Fischer after the suspension, read the comments in the NHI.
Kosta Diamantis had several co-conspirators in his case who were prosecuted by the DOJ. Richard Colangelo must have known that Kosta was on the take, his criminal behavior was wide ranging and brazen. How could the Chief State’s Attorney not know? Why didn’t Colangelo prosecute Kosta? Colangelo obviously didn’t want to prosecute a fellow co-conspirator. With Colangelo in charge Kosta felt he could get away with anything, his crime wave was more brazen than any corrupt political appointee in CT history.
Why didn’t the DOJ prosecute Colangelo? Professional courtesy to a fellow prosecutor? Or did Colangelo know too much? Colangelo was a State’s Attorney for over 30 years. Colangelo must have dirt on everyone in the State, local and possibly even the Federal government. If Colangelo were indicted he would have brought everyone down, Republicans like himself, and Democrats like Diamantis. Hopefully Diamantis, a Democrat will write a blog from Greece exposing corrupt individuals such as his co-conspirator Colangelo, a Republican, who run the “Constitution State.” But that will never happen.
If the Feds want a locate on Kosta all they need to do is monitor the bank accounts of Colangelo and other top government officials and track where the “hush money” is going.
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Curious what you think about the 9 page email Kosta sent his attorney outlining some of the corruption of Lamont and the federal prosecutors and judge?
Da noticing ….
On Black Thursday in 1929, Thomas W. Lamont was acting head of J.P. Morgan & Co. Five days prior to the Crash, President Herbert Hoover had contacted Lamont with concerns about the rampant market manipulation by Wall Street insiders, and the systemic risk it presented to the stock market. Lamont reassured the President that there was no cause for concern, and no need for government intervention, saying “The future appears brilliant!” [11]
The market crashed the following Thursday. In an attempt to stop the panic, Lamont organized Wall Street firms to inject confidence back into the stock market through massive purchases of blue chip stocks. The effort failed, and stocks ultimately lost a quarter of their value that week. After the crash unfolded, the Senate Banking Committee found that J.P. Morgan (headed by Lamont), had maintained a “preferential stock list”, to allow for liquidation of stocks during the crash at prices premium to actual market value. Politicians, including Calvin Coolidge, and family members of prominent bankers, were on the list.
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