FORMER GOVERNOR CONVICTED OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITY IN TWO CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS

A federal jury in New Haven has found former governor JOHN G. ROWLAND guilty of all seven counts of an indictment related to his efforts to conceal the extent of his involvement in two federal election campaigns. The trial began on September 3 and the jury returned its verdict this afternoon. ROWLAND, 57, of Middlebury, served as governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991.

According to evidence introduced during the trial, in approximately October 2009, ROWLAND devised a scheme to work for the campaign of a candidate seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut’s Fifth Congressional District during the 2009 and 2010 election cycle, and to conceal from the Federal Election Commission (\”FEC\”) and the public that he would be paid to perform that work. To