An East Hartford accounting/information-technology services vendor once hired to do work for the state Department of Social Services will pay a $10,000 fine for using inside information gleaned from its assignment for financial gain, ethics authorities say.
The agency hired contractor Craig J. Lubitski Consulting, LLC from 2001 to July 2013 to provide analyses the agency used to set reimbursement rates for nursing homes and other home-care facilities, the Office of State Ethics said Monday.
When its state contract ended, Lubitski Consulting then used the same information — internal notes, proprietary coding and data, and oral information gathered in dealing with the state — when it began representing some of those same facilities to challenge the agency’s reimbursements for their services, ethics investigators said.
Lubitski Consulting did not contest that it acquired and used inside data, but insisted it never used any confidential information to benefit those clients, investigators said.
Under the settlement, the firm agreed to refrain from any more challenges of the rates it helped establish, whether or not the information is confidential.
“Confidential information that belongs to the state can’t be used by state contractors or by state employees, for that matter, for personal gain,” said Office of State Ethics Executive Director Carol Carson.
A Craig J. Lubitski official declined comment Monday.
