Jacqueline Mandyck of West Hartford -- a political appointee of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's who had stood to lose her job as a $107,000-a-year deputy commissioner of consumer protection in January, but on Oct. 22 landed a position on the permanent state civil-service payroll -- has experienced even more good fortune.
Newly surfaced records show that the announced $103,580-a-year salary for her new job at the Department of Economic and Community Development was immediately increased by $10,043, to $113,623.
State officials at first could not explain the salary boost Tuesday, but later provided a complicated bureaucratic explanation that almost made it seem as if it happened spontaneously. Read the full story by clicking here.