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One can only hope that Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis will be writing a memoir while vacationing in Greece.
The former Connecticut deputy budget director and head of the state’s Office of School Construction Grants and Review, we are told in numerous news stories, fled to Greece on September 17, 2026, just before his scheduled federal sentencing for a major corruption case.
Convicted in October 2025 on 21 federal counts -- including bribery, extortion, conspiracy, and making false statements to federal investigators – prosecutors tell us that Kosta abused his authority over state school construction contracts (worth about $8.5 million) to pressure contractors for bribes between 2018 and 2021.
According to a recent story in CTMirror, Diamantis sent a “rambling ten page email to his attorney in which he cast “the prosecution as ‘politically motivated.’ He also said that the Department of Justice was ‘weaponized’ against him, copying language frequently used by Trump… Diamantis blames Lamont for the federal charges leveled against him. And he claims the criminal case against him was meant to distract the public from the governor and his wife’s business dealings, particularly a previously vetted investment in a company that provided COVID-19 testing in the early weeks of the pandemic. “
Diamantis wrote. “The entire investigation was a politically insulated script written by Lamont, Connecticut DOJ and Connecticut’s tight knit legal aristocracy hired by Lamont to protect himself and his family from scrutiny and ensure I would be discredited.”
Kosta’s defense attorney, Norm Pattis, was not surprised by Kosta’s flight to Greece, which has an extradition arrangement with the United States, suspended in cases in which the person to be extracted is a Greek citizen. Kosta has duel citizenship in Greece and the United States.
Long in the habit of avoiding arcane legalese, Pattis tells us “As a lawyer, you know, I cannot support his decision to take the law into his own hands [and flee the country], but as a fellow human being, I understand why he did what he did. He’s got two choices: spend the next five years of your senior citizenship, or your golden years, asking Bubba for permission to stand in line, or go to Greece. Who wouldn’t go to Greece?”
Governor Ned Lamont very quickly washed his hands of all responsibility. He was shocked – SHOCKED! – “that this guy, with that big a judgment, is able to get away like that,” Lamont said.” Thankfully, “It’s a federal matter, and I hope they hold him accountable and get him.” The federal government, Lamont told reporters, is “responsible for tracking him.”
Lamont has not yet accused Trump, regarded in Democrat precincts as being the cause of every political ill in the country, of conspiring to spirit Kosta to Greece. It is pretty well known that Connecticut Democrats are glad to be rid of an albatross who knows a great deal about legal political peculation -- as do Democrats. The current mayor of Bridgeport, the affable Joe Ganim, was elected mayor of the city six times, serving from 1991 to 2003, when he resigned after being convicted on federal felony corruption charges. Ganim spent nine years in prison – a very “big judgment” to quote Lamont. Shortly after his release, Ganim in 2015 regained his old office in a successful political comeback and once again was elected Bridgeport mayor.
The federal government was responsible for trying Diamantis, and he was certainly found wanting at trial. But Diamantis’ political rap sheet shows a long and fervent attachment to Lamont’s Democrat Party. One news account tells us, “Diamantis was initially appointed by Gov. Dannel Malloy to oversee school construction funding for the state government and was given the additional title of deputy budget director under Lamont, who also kept him in the school construction role. He was previously a Democratic state representative for a Bristol district for 14 years.”
“The conspiracy charged by federal prosecutors,” we are told, “did not implicate anyone else in state government. Following Diamantis’ flight, “Republican gubernatorial nominee Ryan Fazio asserted that the episode reflected on the governor…” Fazio noted, “When Gov. Lamont promoted Kosta Diamantis and put him in a position of enormous authority over taxpayer dollars, he was putting his trust in him to safeguard the public’s money. That decision ended with Diamantis convicted on federal corruption charges, and now he has fled the country rather than face sentencing. The taxpayers deserve accountability for the judgment and failures that allowed this to happen.”
Diamantis is said to be considering a return to Connecticut to serve time for what appears in the grand scheme of things to be relatively minor peculations. Most of the grand political crimes in Connecticut are committed against taxpayers, largely the result of a 30 year old one-party state in which the majesty of the law regularly winks at the real robber barons who commit legalized theft. Carrying an accumulative debt of billions of dollars while boasting of fake “surpluses” ought to be worth a few days in the clinker. At the very least, those who engage in legal theft should be “sent to Coventry” or publicaly vilified at stocks set up fronting Connecticut’s Old State House. But legal peculation that occurs under laws written by the peculators is generally written off as “politics as usual” by both dominant Democrats and the remnant of the state’s once independent media.
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