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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 12:32 PM
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What is going on in Bridgeport, CT?
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 12:59 PM by madinmaryland
Mayor admits cocaine use in speech to city employees
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writer

:wtf:



BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Bridgeport Mayor John M. Fabrizi admitted publicly Tuesday that he abused cocaine while in office but said he has not used drugs in 18 months.

In a tearful speech to about 200 city employees and residents in City Council chambers, Fabrizi said he sought help for a drug addiction that he had hoped to handle privately.

"I thought that these were personal, private matters to me and my family, that I could deal with these issues with my family and myself," Fabrizi said. "I now recognize my actions affected many others, and I want to apologize to my family, my friends, and all of the people of the city of Bridgeport for my actions, my past actions."

The admission followed the inadvertent release of an FBI document in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of the mayor using cocaine.

Fabrizi, a Democrat who took office after Joseph Ganim was convicted of corruption in 2003, said he hopes to move forward and continue running Connecticut's largest city, which has about 140,000 residents.

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Fabrizi first admitted he had used cocaine to the editorial board of the Connecticut Post, which reported the admission in Tuesday's editions.

Fabrizi would not tell the Post how he obtained cocaine, but said he occasionally spent $20 or $40 to purchase it. The mayor offered to take periodic drug tests if anyone doubts he has stopped using cocaine.

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add link: http://www.connpost.com/ci_3959297

I lived there about the time "Bordeaux Joe" Ganim was convicted. I met Ganim and he was a nice enough guy.

BTW, they are both Dem's. :grr:
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