Free Statement of Material Facts - District Court of Connecticut - Connecticut

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT A
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT .
NICHOLAS SICONOLFI and : A
THE NICHOLAS-J AMES COMPANY :
Plaintiffs, :
: CIVIL ACTION NO.:
TOWN OF TRUMBULL : 303 CV 929 (AWT) _
MARLIN LIVELY :
ANNE MOORE :
RICHARD BERNARD and :
CHRISTOPHER PAOLETTI, :
Defendants. : November 2, 2004 .
AFFIDAVIT
Christopher Paoletti, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
l. I am over the age of eighteen and believe in the obligation of an oath. i
2. I am thoroughly familiar with the facts stated below and state that they are true and A
correct to the best of my knowledge, information and belief. I
3. I am making this affidavitin support of the Defendants’ Motion for Summary
Judgment. I
4. In the year 2001, I served as a police officer for the Town of Trumbull at which
time I held the rank of sergeant.
5. During my service with the Trumbull Police Department, I was asked to conduct an
investigation of the pistol permit application of Nicholas J . Sicinolti. °
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6. My investigation of Mr. Sicinolii’s revealed several problems, including: .
a. James DeSanty, who was a former Detective of the Trumbull Police Department
and friend of Sicinolfi, processed his application;
b. DeSanty and Sicinolti were business partners in the Nicholas-James Company,
LLC; I
c. Sicinolfi failed to provide his alias "Nicholas Sarno" in his application; ‘
d. Sicinolfi left blank the responses where he was asked "Have you ever been
refused a Permit to carry Pistols or Revolvers'?" and "If you were issued a
Permit previously, was the Permit ever Revoked?";
e. Sicinolfi did not fill in all parts of his previous employment for the past ten
years, listing only "self-employed";
f. He indicated that he had served in the Armed Forces, but the Department of `
Defense had no record of him having served; and W
g. Family members and business associates provided Sicinolfi’s character
references. D
7. On August 2, 2001, Acting Chief of Police M. James Lively noticed Mr. Sicinolii `
was sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Town of Trumbull Police Department. ,
Chief Lively asked that I inform Mr. Sicinolfi that his pistol permit was being
revoked, and to check if Mr. Sicinolfi was carrying a weapon and acting as a
bodyguard without a license. I
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8. I was not involved in the investigation of the registration of Sicinolii’s motor
vehicle. ‘
9. I was not involved in a stop of one of the Plaintiffs’ supervised visitation clients in
May, 2001.
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‘ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2 day of November, 2004.
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