One board member, Stephen G. Callas, said, "The mayor's campaign has committed forgery and fraud on a massive and unprecedented scale, and therefore must be held accountable".
Although her testimony on Monday did not tie Mr. Seabrook directly to unlawful behavior, she acknowledged that he used his influence to help her and admitted that she had committed forgery while running the nonprofit groups.
The two employees arrested on Dec. 28, Venita Bines, 40, of Bridgeport and Tracy Stevensen-Lucas, 31, of Stratford, both examiners with the department, were charged with multiple counts of second-degree forgery and second-degree conspiracy to commit forgery.
After one trial ended with a hung jury, he was convicted last month of 18 counts, for taking $5,700, committing forgery, violating his oath of office and offering a witness $2,700.
Channie Jamison, 32, of Norwalk and who worked at the Norwalk D.M.V. office, was arrested on Aug. 25 and charged with six felonies, including forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery, receiving a bribe and conspiracy to receiving a bribe, and making a false statement and conspiracy to making a false statement.
According to an organization called the Center for On-line Addiction, there are people who get in so deep that they commit forgery, fraud, theft or embezzlement in order to pay for their trading habits.
Two weeks later the stock was pushed down to $40 after a story ran in the Santa Barbara News-Press in which the former registrar of the company's Brooks Institute of Photography alleged that management pressured staff "to commit forgery, fraud, perjury or whatever is necessary to pass audit inspections".
She also committed petty forgeries.
Instead, despite all the settlements, all the promises to clean up their acts, he believes they committed fraud and forgery on top of fraud and forgery, and tried to flush it through the system.
He also questioned the credibility of several government witnesses who had worked for those groups and who had implicated Mr. Seabrook in wrongdoing, but had also acknowledged that they too had committed crimes, including forgery and falsifying financial records.
In December, the Connecticut State Police arrested Mr. Kurrus, who has a house in Falls Village and was extradited from California, on two counts of first-degree larceny and one count of conspiracy to commit second-degree forgery.
