Federal prosecutors spent the first two days of the criminal trial of Konstantinos Diamantis portraying the former director of Connecticut’s school construction office as a public official who extorted contractors into paying him bribes.

But on Wednesday, Diamantis’ defense attorney, Norm Pattis, sought to shift the narrative to show that it was Diamantis who was being taken advantage of.

Pattis used the cross examination of Antonietta DiBenedetto Roy , the owner of Construction Advocacy Professionals, to argue that she willingly hired Diamantis’ daughter in order to gain favor with him.

Roy told the jurors on Tuesday that she selected Diamantis’ daughter for a $40 per hour job at her firm and that she later secured several lucrative contracts overseeing local school projects in To

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