For the second time in a week, state ethics officials have fined a college educator for a conflict of interest involving a spouse — this time one who works at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
Donald Stitt of Danbury paid a $400 civil penalty for state ethics violations for entering into two no-bid contracts with the state valued at amounts more than $100, the Office of State Ethics said Wednesday.
Stitt, who is married to a full-time theater arts instructor at Western Connecticut State University, entered into contracts with the school in July 2009 and 2010, valued at $300 and $500 respectively, for Stitt to run workshops for the school’s Master’s in Fine Arts program.
State law bans a state employee or his immediate family member from engaging in state contracts for more than $100 without an open and public process.
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Last week, David G. Carter Sr., retired chancellor of the Connecticut State University System paid a $2,000 civil ethics penalty for failure to alert trustees that his wife had been reappointed to a CSUS job amid a hiring freeze.
