Connecticut Condo Owners’ Friend At Consumer Protection Retires
We write this article with mixed feelings. CCOC wishes to extend heartfelt congratulations to Richard Maloney, Director of Trade Practices. Richard retired from the CT Department of Consumer Protection effective October 1st.
Although condominium law is but a small part of the overwhelming tasks before the Department of Consumer Protection; the support and direction he gave to CCOC has been invaluable. He assisted us when interacting with members of common interest communities. Richard and the staff at DCP were always sensitive to the needs of condo owners.
As the regulatory authority for community association managers, vendors and the many who interact with condominiums; we cannot count the times we contacted DCP seeking direction. A daunting task to say the least and sometimes not always successful, however, we speak for many when we say we were appreciative of DCP’s efforts and are sad to see Richard Maloney leave.
Richard’s contributions have been many [DCP’s Condo Q&A to name one]. We wish to thank him for the opportunities he has provided CCOC and our efforts over the past 5 years to read and “attempt” to understand Connecticut legislation.
Again, to Richard, congratulations from our Executive and Advisory Boards and membership! He has been a great asset and friend to CCOC. We will miss him.
Actually, the pre-cursor to the COCC was the help of Mr. Maloney boss then Sen. Jonathan Harris.
Along with a group of concerned Condo owners in the Greater Hartford area(including myself) worked with Sen. Harris and Rep. Demitri Gianaros of Farmington. We put together an article nitiative to help draft initial condo homeowner laws along with various CT legislature. A few years later you have what is known as COCC.
Bill is correct above. I would suggest that as a result of that meeting with Senator Harris, Representative Gianaros and the Special Counsel to the Attorney General the framework for CCOC was formed. Thanks to all those who helped CCOC at that time and helped it grow to over 800 members in just a few years.
then how do you explain that you guys made enemies of everyone you dealt with? We had to come in and clean up the mess you left.
who was the lawyer for the stratford ct condos in which several people were arrested and serve jail for embezzlement and fraud