A federal judge has refused to prevent a jury from hearing that co-conspirators of former state deputy budget director Konstantinos Diamantis, who is accused of using his position overseeing the state’s school building office to solicit bribes from construction contractors, admitted to defrauding the government. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill entered the ruling earlier this week setting up jury selection in the case to begin Oct. 3. Diamantis was fired from his post as a deputy budget director by Gov. Ned Lamont after the state received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in 2021 seeking information about Diamantis and a host of projects and companies he was involved with. Diamantis also stepped down from his job overseeing the state’s school construction office. He is accused, according to court documents, of misusing his former position as a state official to demand and receive payments and benefits from different construction contractors. Specifically, it is alleged that Diamantis, as the head of the state’s Office of School Construction Grants and Review, used his position to solicit and receive bribes from Acranom Masonry, Inc., of Middlefield, through its principals Salvatore Monarca and John Duffy, and Construction Advocacy Professionals LLC, of Moosup, through its principal Antonietta Roy.

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