Infrastructure Project: Bharara-Daly Interstate Highway Gets Boost.

The Buffalo to Stamford to Hartford Bharara-Daly Highway got a boost this week when Preet Bharara, corruption busting U.S. Attorney in New York, announced he accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to stay at his powerful post. Bharara has been  prosecuting two cases of corruption in New York with implications for Connecticut. Louis Ciminelli, a Buffalo construction mogul, pleaded not guilty in an alleged state-funded solar factory construction scheme. It is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s controversial Buffalo Billion economic development plan.

Ciminelli became a generous donor to the Connecticut Democratic party’s federal fund at the time his team was named the developer of the Stamford Transportation Center in 2013. Ciminelli and family members continued to make hefty contributions to the party federal fund during Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s re-election campaign. Ciminelli, records show, had not been a state party contributor before the 2013.

Connecticut’s U.S attorney, Deidre Daly, is leading an investigation of state Democratic party federal fund spending on Malloy’s 2014 campaign. No word on whether she will continue in office after January 20th.