REPUBLICAN Connecticut state senator Louis DeLuca to step down amid allegations mob-assisted threats

By Susan Haigh
Associated Press / November 14, 2007

HARTFORD - State Senator Louis DeLuca said yesterday that he will step down, rather than face possible expulsion from the Senate for asking a trash hauler with alleged mob ties to threaten his granddaughter's husband.

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DeLuca's announcement came moments before the Senate was expected to grant subpoena power to a six-member bipartisan investigative committee seeking tapes of conversations DeLuca had with an undercover FBI agent in 2005.

The panel appeared to be moving toward recommending that the full Senate expel or censure DeLuca. Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat, said his gut told him his colleagues were headed toward the first expulsion in the history of the Connecticut Senate.

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DeLuca, the former Republican minority leader, has represented 10 towns in western Connecticut since 1991. He has said he asked Danbury trash hauler James Galante for help because he believed his granddaughter was being abused by her husband and Waterbury police would not assist him, a charge they have denied.


{REPUBLICAN} Senator Louis DeLuca of Connecticut announced his resignation effective Nov. 30. At right is DeLuca's wife, Alice. (BOB CHILD/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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