HARTFORD, Conn. – House Speaker Brendan Sharkey supports them. Senate President Martin Looney is ready to discuss the details. Highway tolls could return to Connecticut as one way to fund Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s ambitious plan to invest in transportation infrastructure in his second term.
But the role of one of Connecticut’s newest registered lobbyists is raising questions about how such decisions are made.
Tolls are close enough to happening, apparently, that an out-of-state company is paying $60,000 to influence state government leaders in hopes of eventually winning a contract for some of the work in building the infrastructure around them.
The company has hired Roy Occhiogrosso, a Malloy confidant, former senior administration adviser and architect of the governor’s election and re-election.
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