Ned Lamont didn’t break law in handling ARPA interest, Tong said

Ned Lamont didn’t break law in handling ARPA interest, Tong said

Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration didn’t violate state law when it moved $340 million in interest earned on federal COVID relief grants into the state budget, Attorney General William Tong said Monday. But while Tong settled the legal question, a Republican leader said the Democratic governor’s administration still was wrong for not reporting these interest dollars to legislators for nearly three years. Though Connecticut received roughly $2.8 bi…