Jurors listened to a third construction contractor testify on Tuesday about how he paid multiple bribes to Konstantinos Diamantis, a former state deputy budget director, in order to secure work on Connecticut school construction projects.

Sal Monarca, the former president of Acranom Masonry, was one of the first people on the witness stand during the second week of Diamantis’ ongoing criminal trial.

He explained to the jury in detail how he paid cash bribes to Diamantis in order to gain the former public official’s help in securing several school building contracts in Hartford and Tolland.

Federal prosecutors had Monarca explain to the jury how he wrote checks to himself out of his company’s bank account and how he would immediately cash those checks in order to secretly give tens of

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