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Article: Connecticut mayor admits to using cocaine in office
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 21, 2006
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Mayor John M. Fabrizi admitted Tuesday he had
abused cocaine while in office and said he wanted to apologize "to
all the people of the city" but had no plans to resign.
The admission followed the inadvertent release of an FBI document
in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape
of the mayor using cocaine.
In a tearful speech to about 200 city employees and residents in
City Council chambers Tuesday, Fabrizi said he had not used drugs in
18 months and had sought help for a drug addiction that he had hoped
to handle privately.
"I thought that these were personal, private matters to me and my
family, that I could deal with these issues with my ...