September 30, 2026
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis, who fled to Greece before learning his fate on federal corruption charges, was sentenced while absent on Wednesday to seven years in prison, if extradition efforts are successful, and immediately faced new litigation over his state government pension.
September 29, 2026
A onetime Connecticut budget official now on the lam in Greece asked a federal judge Tuesday to postpone restitution until two admitted co-conspirators who testified against him are sentenced, arguing their plea agreements could force them to shoulder at least some of the costs of a school construction bribery scheme.
September 25, 2026
After a jury convicted former Connecticut state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis of 21 corruption counts, a federal judge assumed prosecutors would not seek immediate incarceration, asking a question that came to preface an international manhunt now underway.
September 17, 2026
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis slipped out of the United States before learning his fate on federal corruption charges by driving to Florida, taking a boat to the Bahamas, and flying to London, apparently using a Greek passport he was not supposed to possess, attorneys revealed in court Thursday.
September 14, 2026
Federal prosecutors say former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis deserves to spend between roughly 10 and 12½ years in prison after being convicted of accepting bribes, committing extortion and lying to federal agents, arguing "his greed, corruption and abject lack of integrity" require time behind bars.
September 04, 2026
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis asked a federal judge Friday to spare him from a potential decade-plus prison sentence after his conviction for demanding and accepting bribes, citing factors including his advanced age and loss of his law license.
May 01, 2026
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis will be sentenced in a school construction bribery case before being tried on bribery charges involving a healthcare audit, a federal judge has ruled.
April 20, 2026
A change of plea hearing scheduled Monday afternoon in the second federal corruption trial of former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos M. Diamantis never materialized, with the parties emerging from chambers and leaving a Bridgeport courthouse without a judge entering the courtroom or going on the record.
April 17, 2026
A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Monday afternoon for Konstantinos M. Diamantis, a former Connecticut budget official, elected politician and attorney facing an impending federal corruption trial for allegedly pocketing bribes while helping end a state Medicaid audit of an optometry practice operated by his friend's fiancée.
March 24, 2026
A Connecticut judge on Tuesday accepted former state budget official Konstantinos M. Diamantis' decision to relinquish his law license and never reapply for admission to the bar after a corruption trial last year ended with his conviction.