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FAIRFIELD –

An independent arbitrator says it’s unlikely that a Fairfield teacher exposed himself to a teenage student and recommends that he keep his job.

Jeff Iwanicki, a teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, faces several felony charges. He’s been on paid leave for almost a year after a 15-year-old student accused him of exposing himself to her twice in the classroom, but the arbitrator’s report says the accuser admitted she wasn’t sure what she had actually seen.

In one case, several other students were said to be nearby, but two of those students testified that they didn’t see the alleged incident happen. Furthermore, the arbitrator says Fairfield police made no attempt to locate another key witness.

“The police investigation was insufficient, lacking in any effort to even ascertain all the witnesses, nor interview them,” the report reads.

“This was a situation where the allegation was so strong that…many in the administration and also at the police department bought the story hook, line and sinker,” says Ed Gavin, Iwanicki’s lawyer.

According to the arbitrator, the accuser “admitted that she doubted herself, that she thought she was crazy, that she never saw Mr. Iwanicki unzip his pants or remove his penis.”

It’s up to the board of education whether to lift Iwanicki’s suspension, and he’s still facing the criminal charges. The board is not bound by the arbitrator’s recommendation.

The superintendent did not immediately respond to a News 12 Connecticut request for comment.

https://www.news12.com/…/arbitrator-finds-fairfield-teacher-…

City ordered to rehire Fire Department’s secretary

By Daniel Tepfer Published 12:01 pm, Thursday, November 30, 2017

Norwalk man charged in Bridgeport murder

By Daniel Tepfer Updated 3:42 pm, Thursday, October 5, 2017

BRIDGEPORT — Cadell Moore never had a chance.

The father of six children had pulled his Chevrolet sport utility vehicle over on Sixth Street on Aug. 24 to fix a problem with it when, police said, he was caught in the city’s drug and gang war.

Moore was shot in the head while bent over his SUV’s engine as David “Westboy Loso” Shavers, a member of Norwalk’s Crips gang, directed a hail of bullets at a house behind Moore, police said. The shooting, they said, was in retaliation for a previous dust-up with members of the city’s East Side gang.On Thursday police arrested the 20-year-old Shavers — of Suncrest Road in Norwalk and already on probation for selling drugs — and charged him with murder, criminal possession of a firearm and carrying a pistol without a permit.

“Cadell Moore’s family would like to thank Chief A.J. Perez, Captain (Roderick) Porter and the Bridgeport Police Department for their efforts in effectuating a speedy arrest in the senseless murder of Cadell,” said the family’s spokesman, Edward Gavin. “The family has lost a father, son and brother in another homicide that should have never happened. We are devastated and look forward to justice being served.”

Settlements reached in school stabbing death suit

By Daniel Tepfer Published 5:44 pm, Thursday, September 7, 2017

MILFORD – The family of a local teenager who fatally stabbed a female classmate to death at Jonathan Law High School three years ago after she rebuffed his invitation to the prom has tentatively agreed to pay a settlement to the mother of the victim.

“I can confirm settlement discussions are proceeding,” said Edward Gavin, the lawyer for Christopher Plaskon and his parents, David and Kathleen Plaskon on Thursday. “Ultimately, in any case of this type, a settlement must be approved in probate court.”

Christopher Plaskon was sentenced June 7, 2016, to 25 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to murder for stabbing 16-year-old Maren Sanchez to death on April 25, 2014, with a steak knife in the hallway of the high school. A week later Sanchez’s mother, Donna Cimarelli-Sanchez filed suit in Superior Court here against the Plaskon family and the Board of Education seeking damages for her daughter’s death. The case against the Board of Education is scheduled to go to trial in May 2018.

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Settlements-reached-in-school-stabbing-death-suit-12181186.php

Ex-teacher pleads not guilty to sex assault of special Ed student

By Daniel Tepfer Updated 11:02 am, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

BRIDGEPORT—A former Central High School teacher pleaded not guilty Tuesday to having a sexual relationship with a special education student.

Not guilty, jury,” Laura Ramos, replied when asked by Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin how she pleaded to the charge of second-degree sexual assault against her.

The judge then continued the case to Aug. 14.

“Laura is presumed innocent and we are looking forward to seeing what the substance of the state’s claims are,” her lawyer, Edward Gavin, said later outside the Fairfield County Courthouse.

Victims sue to freeze assets in sex trafficking case

By Dirk Perrefort and Daniel Tepfer Updated 6:55 pm, Wednesday, April 5, 2017

DANBURY – Two men victimized by what authorities describe as a long-running sex trafficking ring are looking to seize at least $10 million in assets from two men charged last week as clients of the operation. A filing in Bridgeport Superior Court on Wednesday seeks to freeze the assets of Westport resident William Trefzger, 71, a convicted sex offender, and Glastonbury resident Bruce Bemer, 63, the owner of the Waterford Speedbowl and Bemer Petroleum, according to court documents. Bemer and Trefzger are accused of patronizing a trafficked person.

Wednesday’s filing would be the first step toward filing a civil suit for damages. A third man, Robert King of Danbury, is accused of masterminding the ring, which has been in operation for more than 20 years. Police said King preyed on young men with mental disabilities, plying them with drugs including cocaine and heroin until they ran up substantial debts, then pushing them into prostitution to repay the debts. Bemer admitted to investigators that he had been seeing “boys” delivered by King for more than 20 years, court records show.

“These young men deserve a better life — and sexual predators like Bemer and Trefzger will be held accountable for the irreversible damage they have caused,” said the victims’ attorney, Joel Faxon. “Criminals like this have to know that if they engage in such despicable abuse, there will be a heavy financial cost exacted.

“We will extract every last dollar from these sadistic sociopaths and put them out of business permanently,” Faxon said.

Ed Gavin, an attorney representing Trefzger, said he wants to explore further why the state has chosen to use the trafficking laws against those accused of involvement in the ring. Trafficking cases are typically handled by federal authorities, he said.

“There is no claim that these people were forcibly sexually assaulted,” Gavin said. ”I just hope people don’t jump to conclusions. This is a very complicated case.”

Retired teacher sentenced for killing firefighter’s wife

By Daniel Tepfer Updated 1:01 am, Wednesday, December 2, 2015

BRIDGEPORT — Veteran Stratford firefighter Greg Anderson has rescued people from burning buildings, but possibly the hardest thing he has had to do was watch his 17-year-old son stand up in court Tuesday and tell the woman who had killed his mother in a car crash last year that he forgave her.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the courtroom.

“My mother was the most important thing to me in this world, but my mother also taught me that we have to forgive; we need to learn to forgive what happened,” Ryan Anderson said, wiping the tears from his eyes as he looked at Eleanore Olbrys standing beside her lawyer a few feet away.

Ryan Anderson then walked back to where his father sat crying, and the two embraced.

Superior Court Judge Kevin Doyle could have sentenced the 79-year-old retired city schoolteacher to a maximum of six months in prison after she pleaded guilty to negligent homicide with a motor vehicle. Instead, he imposed a suspended sentence with two years’ probation.“There is nothing I can do to make it better for this family,” the judge said, wiping his eyes with a tissue his clerk had gingerly offered up from her desk. “There is no sentence the court can make to make the Anderson family whole. I can only offer condolences and hope you will continue to heal.”

In addition to the suspended sentence, the judge ordered Olbrys not to drive until she undergoes a medical examination and a driving test. “Why would you ever drive again,” Greg Anderson angrily demanded.

Olbrys, who had taught at Harding and Bassick high schools, was on her way home from church on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2014, in her new Ford Escape sport-utility vehicle when police said she hit the gas instead of the brake and drove into a Ford pickup truck driven by Greg Anderson on Main Street in Stratford.

The crash killed 41-year-old Shannon Anderson, a paraprofessional at Stratford High School and mother of two children, who was sitting next to her husband in the passenger seat.

Assistant State’s Attorney Stephanie Damiani told the judge the victims wanted a severe sentence for Olbrys, who was not on drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash, but understood the limits of what could be done.

“Whatever sentence is imposed by the court will not bring back Shannon Anderson,” the prosecutor said. “The defendant is going to have to live with what she did for the rest of her life.”

Throughout the hearing, Olbrys stood crying.

“On behalf of Eleanor Olbrys and her family, we extend our deepest condolences and apologize,” her lawyer, Edward Gavin, told the judge. “She relives the accident every day.”

Judge upholds city union’s raises

By Daniel Tepfer and Brian Lockhart Updated 6:39 pm, Monday, March 21, 2016

BRIDGEPORT – Mayor Joe Ganim will have to find something else to plug the budget deficit besides stuffing the hole with one union’s retroactive raises. The returned mayor’s efforts to cancel a collective bargaining contract and the related pay hikes he inherited after his re-election in November fizzled in court. Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on Monday upheld the labor pact negotiated between ex-Mayor Bill Finch and the 155-member supervisors’ union.

Publicly, Ganim was a gracious loser. “I want to thank Judge Bellis for her time in this very important issue,” said the mayor in a statement. “We respect her decision.” But at least one union member wondered if the administration will seek payback, taking aim at the supervisors in the budget Ganim forwards to the City Council early next month.

The administration has already laid off dozens of city employees, including supervisors.“If Ganim attempts to use this and then retaliate against the union, it’s going to hurt him big time,” said this member, who wished to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation.

Road to court

The origins of the court fight actually date back to Ganim’s first tenure as Bridgeport’s chief executive in the 1990s. During that time the salaries of the mayor and key, non-union, often politically appointed department heads and advisers were, through a city ordinance, linked with those of the supervisors’. Upon returning to City Hall on Dec. 1, Ganim learned that a five-year contract with the supervisors that included two years of retroactive salary increases and three future raises had been quietly implemented during Finch’s final days in office. The matter had been tabled by the City Council in part because it meant Finch, who lost September’s Democratic primary to Ganim, and his staff would receive payouts. But the Council had been unaware that under state law, unless that body rejected the deal, it went into effect after a few weeks.

The Ganim administration has claimed Finch left behind a $20 million debt. So the mayor and his attorneys convinced the City Council over the winter that they had found a loophole — a date change — allowing that body to vote down the deal with the supervisors.

The matter landed in court.

Edward Gavin, the supervisors’ attorney, contended the date change was an allowed fix to a clerical error. But the citys lawyer claimed the date change nullifed the contract — including the raises.

Bellis agreed with Gavin. She said the later revision correcting the date did not change the goals of the contract, which she said benefited the city. In exchange for the raises the union agreed to concessions like unpaid furlough days and, more importantly for Bridgeport’s future financial health, eliminating post-retirement health benefits for new hires.

Gold Finch

During the nine-day trial before Bellis, Deputy City Attorney John Bohannon wove a narrative of a Finch administration desperate to find a way to push the contract through so they could reap the monetary benefits.

Bohannon singled out City Council President Thomas McCarthy, who until recently was deputy director of labor relations, and Senior Labor Relations Director Thomas Austin. Both received retroative raises. McCarthy got a check for $14,654 and Austin for $11,506. Bohannon claimed McCarthy purposely hid from the council that the contract with the union would be automatically approved if a vote was tabled.

McCarthy has argued because he was a member of the union it would have been a conflict-of-interest for him to participate in any council discussions of the contract.

“The court vehemently finds that neither Mr. McCarthy’s nor Mr. (Senior Labor Relations Director Thomas) Austin actions were unfairly influenced by the contract,” Bellis stated Monday from the bench. “The court finds both Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Austin testified truthfully and there is no evidence Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Austin were working against the benefit of the city.”

McCarthy afterward said he appreciated the judge’s comments. “I still question why the city put out a claim that was false but I’m glad this decision puts that to rest,” McCarthy said.

Ganim during the campaign had pledged to try and stop the practice of allowing municipal employees to also serve on the council. He recently negotiated a severance deal with McCarthy.

Gavin called Bohannon’s allegations “unconscionable.”

“We are glad the court found these claims were baseless,” Gavin said. “The (union) has always acted in good faith in our negotiations and today the court recognized that.”

There has been speculation that the Ganim administration was going to lose in court since at least earlier this month when the supervisors’ rejected a settlement offer. https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Judge-uphold-city-union-s-raises-6926308.php

Supervisors challenge Ganim in court over raises

By Brian LockhartUpdated 1:08 am, Wednesday, January 20, 2016

BRIDGEPORT — The city’s supervisors have gone to court to block an attempt by Mayor Joseph Ganim to cancel their new contract and negotiated pay raises.

The Bridgeport Supervisors Association, a 168-person union, on Monday sought an injunction to keep Ganim from interfering with a collective bargaining agreement approved late last year under then-Mayor Bill Finch. Ganim inherited the pact when he was sworn in Dec. 1. He convinced the City Council, which had twice tabled the matter during Finch’s final days in office, to reject the contract at a Dec. 30 meeting.

The supervisors’ attorney, Edward Gavin, maintains the council’s vote was meaningless because, under state law, the agreement went into effect while it was in limbo.

A conference on the union’s request has been scheduled with a state Superior Court judge for Thursday.

The City Council had twice tabled the matter in large part because, under statute, around 60 non-union municipal employees — including Finch and his close advisers — would receive retroactive raises along with the supervisors. The contract included two years worth of retroactive 3 percent increases. But concessions favoring the city included unpaid furlough days for workers and eliminating health benefits for retirees. At the time the council held off on a vote — Oct. 19 and Nov. 2 — Finch had lost September’s Democratic mayoral primary to Ganim. So regardless of the outcome of the Nov. 3 general election, Finch and his politically appointed staff were headed for the exit.

Some on the council, particularly members allied with Ganim and Democratic Chairman Mario Testa, did not want the Finch administration to benefit from the retroactive raises. What the council was never told was that, under state statute, if that legislative body did not vote down the contract, then within a period of weeks it was automatically implemented. It was a five-year deal, with the union and 60 non-union municipal employees, Ganim included, also scheduled to receive raises over the next three years. Ganim has since claimed he inherited a $20 million deficit from Finch and is looking for ways to save money. Part of that strategy included finding a legal reason to cancel the collective bargaining agreement with the supervisors.

Ganim’s legal team thought they found that in a date change within the contract that they claimed gave the council a second chance to shoot it down. So the council met Dec. 30 in a special meeting convened by Ganim.

The union claims the date change was allowed under a “clerical error” provision of the contract and the council’s Dec. 30 vote was meaningless and based on “legal fiction.” But City Hall clearly disagrees. According to the union’s injunction request, “The city has recently advised (the supervisors union) that it will unilaterally, illegally and arbitrarily revise and adjust the wages and salaries” of the 168 members. That includes, according to the legal documents, not just reducing the wages but trying to get back the retroactive payments.

The court documents also claim that in scheduling the Dec. 30 special council meeting, the Ganim administration failed to follow the city’s own rules for notifying the public. If the contract is ultimately nullified in court, it is unclear how the city might recoup the raises already paid out, particularly to individuals like Finch, who are no longer employed by Bridgeport. Earlier this month, the state Labor Department said the only likely recourse would be for the city to take those individuals to court. https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Supervisors-challenge-Ganim-in-court-over-raises-6769343.php

Milford’s Christopher Plaskon faces 25 years in murder of Maren Sanchez, after plea deal

Pleads no contest in 2014 school stabbing of Maren Sanchez, 16 Published 10:04 am, Monday, March 7, 2016

MILFORD >> Christopher M. Plaskon, 18, accepted a plea deal Monday and faces a 25-year prison sentence June 6 for the murder of classmate Maren Sanchez, 16, two years ago.

“It’s almost on the anniversary of her death, and I hope they (the family) and the community can move on and heal,” Ansonia-Milford Judicial District State’s Attorney Kevin D. Lawlor said outside of court.Sanchez was attacked April 25, 2014, at Jonathan Law High School, where she and Plaskon were juniors.

Plaskon could be eligible for release after serving 60 percent of his sentence, which could potentially see him free in 13 years, his attorney, Edward J. Gavin, said outside of court.

Plaskon changed his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere, or no contest, to one count of murder during a brief appearance in Superior Court. The plea means he does not contest the charges.

“Both sides took a long time to assess the facts,” Lawlor said. Lawlor, asked whether it is a fair sentence, said, “I have to make judgments based on what the law requires.”

State law mandates the judge and prosecutor consider the age of the youth at sentencing, Lawlor said. Plaskon was 16 when Sanchez was killed. https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/article/Milford-s-Christopher-Plaskon-faces-25-years-in-11337716.php

Ganim threatens layoffs if unions reject austerity measures

By Cedar Attanasio Updated 9:10 pm, Wednesday, June 22, 2016

BRIDGEPORT — Mayor Joe Ganim‘s administration took negotiations with city employees public on Tuesday, calling on union officials to accept concessions or face layoffs.

“We have been in negotiations with organized labor for months, but time is growing short to close our current fiscal year deficit,” said Bridgeport Chief Administrative Officer John Gomes, in a statement. “We are willing to be as flexible as possible but the bottom line is we need more savings.” The administration says that if city employee unions accept $4 million worth of cuts by July 1, the administration can avoid the “last resort” decision to lay off more workers. Ganim inherited a $20 million budget gap when he took office on Dec. 1, according to Bridgeport Director of Communications Av Harris. The city has already laid off around 100 workers and incentivized another 51 into early retirement.

Those early retirements and unpaid furlough days represent significant concessions by city employees, argued Bridgeport Supervisor Association counsel Edward J. Gavin.

“This administration fails to recognize the sacrifices the Union members have and are continuing to make to support the City,” Gavin said by email. “Unions such as the Bridgeport City Supervisors Association have, in the past, gone years without raises to meet the fiscal needs of the Administration. It is reckless and dangerous to layoff dedicated employees who serve the citizens of Bridgeport.”

Gavin offered no additional concessions and predicted that the city would start cutting positions.“We anticipate new layoffs will be announced on Friday,” he said. https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Ganim-threatens-layoffs-if-unions-reject-8319789.php

State Supreme Court will again hear death-penalty arguments

By Ken Dixon Updated 7:53 am, Thursday, January 7, 2016

On the 17th anniversary of the murder of a 8-year-old Bridgeport boy and his mother on orders from drug kingpin Russell Peeler Jr., prosecutors will try to convince the state’s highest court that he must die. State’s attorneys will offer new reasons to a seven-judge state Supreme Court panel on why the repeal of the death penalty should not apply to Peeler — and the 10 others on death row.While the high court narrowly ruled last summer the inmates are exempt from the death penalty, state prosecutors will argue the General Assembly did not mean the 2012 repeal of the death penalty to apply to those already sentenced to die.

“The judgment in this case must be reversed with respect to the imposition of a sentence of death and the case must be remanded with direction to impose a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of release,” said a brief filed by Assistant Public Defender Mark Rademacher and Lisa Steele, a private attorney for Peeler, who will not attend the hearing. It will take place at 10 a.m. in the historic Supreme Court chamber on Capitol Avenue in Hartford.The makeup of the court has changed since August, when Associate Justice Richard Palmer led a four-member majority in declaring that executing the death row inmates after the statewide repeal would amount to cruel and unusual punishment for the state’s most dangerous murderers.

Associate Justice Flemming L. Norcott Jr., who sided with Palmer, has since retired and has been replaced by Associate Justice Richard A. Robinson who prosecutors hope is more conservative on the death penalty.Conversely, the new argument over the repeal could put Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers in a position to switch to Palmer’s side to protect the court’s precedent-setting decision last August.

Edward J. Gavin, a Bridgeport attorney who is a past president of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and an opponent of the death penalty, said Wednesday the case has attracted the attention of the state’s entire legal community.

“The argument tomorrow is a roundabout attempt to influence the previous decision and prior rulings,” Gavin said in a phone interview. “People in the abolition world, we’re all nervous that the Supreme Court could reverse itself.” https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Supreme-Court-will-rehear-death-penalty-arguments-6740995.php

Driver pleads no contest in cop’s death

Updated 11:20 pm, Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Bridgeport man who struck a Shelton police officer with his car on the Fourth of July last year pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle on Wednesday in state Superior Court in Derby.

Bruce Knapik, 65, accepted full responsibility for his actions, according to his attorney, Edward J. Gavin. A charge of driving under the influence against Knapik was dropped.

Defendants enter a no contest plea when they don’t admit to all of the facts presented by the prosecutor, but feel there is enough evidence for a conviction.On July 4, 2010, Shelton officer Orville Smith, 64, was struck by a Nissan Frontier pickup truck driven by Knapik on Route 110 at Indian Well Road, police said.

Smith was directing traffic after a private fireworks event. He died four days later from complications from internal injuries suffered when he was struck by Knapik’s truck. Knapik was not injured.

“This is a tragic situation for the Smith family in losing a beloved family member,” Gavin said. “The Knapik family will be separated from a man they love and support. There are no winners in this case.”

Knapik is expected to serve no less than two years in prison, but no more than four. He will be placed on probation following his release. https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Driver-pleads-no-contest-in-cop-s-death-2226383.php

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Great result in Federal Court today. Client facing 27-33 months on Federal fraud charges. Client sentenced to a year and a day. Will be home in 9 months. Want results? Law Offices of Edward J. Gavin 203-347-7050. State and Federal Court. We just win.

JUNE, 2018–NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT

Went to New Britain to represent a great teacher falsely accused of inappropriate conduct. Walked out with charges dismissed..As it should be. Have a great weekend ED GAVIN

MAY, 2018–BRIDGEPORT SUPERIOR COURT

ANOTHER TREMENDOUS RESULT–CLIENT HEADING FOR CHARGES AGAINST HIM TO BE DISMISSED– THIS IS WHY YOU WANT US TO REPRESENT YOU ED GAVIN 203-347-7050

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Fairfield-flasher-gets-diversionary-program-12916617.php?fbclid=IwAR0n8ePa23r6vKHLFQTpwX0Of-uAv1KPxEBo20dMf8sdV-oqGXChL5m6Igg

APRIL, 2018—BRIDGEPORT SUPERIOR COURT

THE BIGGEST CASES–BEST RESULTS–$6 Million Dollars of Fentanyl–CASE DISMISSED–YOU WANT US IN YOUR CORNER ED GAVIN

Charges dismissed in fentanyl distribution case

By Daniel Tepfer

Updated 5:53 pm EDT, Friday, April 27, 2018

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Charges-dismissed-in-fentanyl-distribution-case-12869145.php?fbclid=IwAR0_pY4gxpZzSepU-eEHpT-M5BiZ32e9N1So7IEzupPXUmsz_biaQ8NEZhY

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_{ATTORNEY EDWARD J. GAVIN NAMED NEW ENGLAND SUPER LAWYER FOR TENTH YEAR IN A ROW}