The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Conspiracy Trial
 Echoes Resounding
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could be realized with Q small ex- penditure. After protracted negotia- tons Q settlement with the Com. pany was reached and the sum oi Seventy Thousand Dollars ($70,000) was made available to the City with the expenditure of @ very small amount of money.
 2. The suit brought by the Citi- zen's Good Government Association against Daniel J. Leary was another matter considered by us. Attach ments of substantial amounts were made and there was reasonable promise of recovery by the City of Sizeahle amounts from this source, Tho Federal Government has lien on the attached assets which t claims to be prior to that of the City. As Q result of the position taken by the Government, the Com mlttee felt that greater progress would be achieved by placing the matter in the hands of an indepen- dent attorney. Because of the then current volume of work, the Cor poration Counsel's Office was not able to take on this additional bur- den, and. as 6 result, the Commit- tee recommended the employment of Attorney George II. Cohen. The contract of employment with Mir Cohen was subsequently, entered inc to and frequent reports from him indicate that he is making progress in his attempt to adjust the differ enceS between the City and the Government, which differences, when adjusted, will advance this suit to Q position where 1t will be ready for trial.
 3. It has been difficult to decide whether or not suits against other than the aforesaid should be insti- tuted. Throughout our deliberations we have been governed by the un. derstandlng that suits should be brought only when there was req. sonable probability of substantial recovery and an accompanying small risk of loss. It has been our feeling that we should treat the problem as a business matter, and we believed that no suits should be brought simply for the purpose of punishment or persecution. The disposal of this phase Of the ques- ton was the function of the crim- inal trial.
 4. Your Committee has had in- numerablc meetings and the prob lem has been discussed with many people, including MT. Warren Brown, the accountant for the State, various individuals involved, and the counsel for such individuals. The record of the criminal trial, irl- cluding the evidence, and the Find ing of the Court was studied, as was the Grand Jury report. Examina- ton of land records and personal property rolls was made to discover the existence of assets. Throughout our work we have had the consider able assistance of J. Gregory Lynch and Maurice T. Healey, Corporation Counsels.
 5. Under present circumstances and with the concurrence of MT. Lynch and MT. Healey we recom- mend that no further action be taken against other persons involved in the grand jury investigation or Conspiracy Trial aforesaid.
 ORTON P. CAMP, T. E. OLSEN.
 This evoked from the Republican, American a lengthy editorial in which it stated in part: We find ourselves bewildered at certain &C., tions taken by the board of finance at Fridays meeting.
 "First, a subcommittee rcom- mended that the city abandon the idea of starring recovery suits for money paid out illegally while Dan iel J. Leary was city controller. Somewhere between two and three million dollars was paid out illegal iy, and roughly speaking Dan got half of it. His assets, as far as they could be found, were attached and the city is trying to recover S60O,- OOO which is probably more than the value of the attached assets
 "The suits were proposed for the purpose of recovering for the city its own money, stolen secretly. and in the hands of the conspirators and their friends. Since when has 1t been regarded as punishment oI persecution to ask the receivers oi stolen money to disgorse. To sue them is not persecution -"
 After due deIiberation Mayor Monagan challenged the editoria criticism in a statement in which among other things. he said. ''rhC committee in it's report concluded that no further civil Pction should be taken at this time. Its reasonl were Gel that certain cases would present overwhelming difficulties oi