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Jury to Decide whether Connecticut Firm Committed Bribery or Played Politics.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By Edmund H. Mahony, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 10--NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Jurors were presented with a stark choice Wednesday during closing arguments in the federal racketeering trial of the Triumph Capital Group: Did former state Treasurer Paul J. Silvester have an agreement with Triumph to steer it a $200 million investment in return for millions in bribes? Or was the exchange of enormous sums between Triumph and Silvester "just politics as usual"?
The ...uestions have focused the case since the FBI began investigating Triumph in the spring of 1999. But they may have been distilled to their essence Wednesday during summations by four lawyers that whipsawed the crowded spectators' gallery and seemed to...
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