The Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board will hold its first public hearing next month involving a former UConn medical technologist accused of running a sideline jewelry and travel consulting business while being paid to do her state job.
A trial referee ruled there is sufficient evidence to hold a Sept. 11 hearing on the ethics charges against Priscilla Dickman of Coventry, who worked at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington until her retirement on disability in 2005, the board said today.
Dickman is accused of eight counts of violating state laws banning state workers from using their public positions for financial gain or in ways that could impair independence of judgment in carrying out their duties. Each violation carries a maximum $10,000 fine.
Dickman could not be immediately reached for comment. Her attorney, John Geida, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dickman’s will be the first public hearing for the nine-member citizen’s ethics panel created in 2005 as part of the reconstituted Office of State Ethics.
