Rennie: Mystery of Greek passport belonging to CT man convicted of crime

It was a startling disclosure.

The jury’s announcement of its verdict is the most notable moment in any trial, but not at the federal criminal trial of Konstantinos Diamantis, the former head of the state’s school construction financing program.

Prosecutors made the disclosure to Judge Stefan B. Underhill shortly after the jury convicted Diamantis Wednesday of all 21 counts of a criminal indictment: Earlier this year, with the corruption charges pending, the defendant quietly obtained Greek citizenship, and somewhere there is a Greek passport with his name on it.

Unusual for a corruption case, passports and travel to Greece keep demanding the court’s attention. On Wednesday, Diamantis told the court he had no intention of using his Greek passport to get to Greece. The passport, he sai