Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra did not violate city ethics rules in not disclosing his spouse’s income from the city’s subsidized housing programs, according to an independent legal review.
A review conducted by West Hartford attorney Matthew Conway at the city’s request turned up no evidence of a conflict of interest involving Segarra or his spouse, landlord Charlie Ortiz, according to city documents released Wednesday.
But Conway’s report is clear that Segarra should have included Ortiz’s contracts generating $2,000 in his annual financial disclosure statement to the city.
“… There is no evidence that the omission was made knowingly or intentionally,” Conway wrote.
Segarra sought the legal opinion in response to an April article in The Hartford Courant that reported Segarra’s omission from filings with the city’s ethics commission.
