Some Maguire history

1988

According to the state's CGA website, a Sebastian Amenta was working at the McGuire Group nearly 20 years ago (webpage dated March 11, 1988):

REP. MAZZOTTA: Okay. Sebastian Amenta of the City of Meriden.

SEBASTIAN AMENTA: Good afternoon, my name is Sebastian Amenta. I represent the City of Meriden and this is regarding House Bill 5996, Item Section 1, B15, The raising of the Broad Brook Reservoir. I'd like to speak in favor of this project. We, I'm an engineer with McGuire Group, we've been associated with the city for eight years now in trying to improve their water supply situation and we are involved in numerous projects with the city and have been and we feel that the Broad Brook Reservoir raising is a significant project and that the additional 300,000 gallons a day is more than worthwhile based on the cost and that would service approximately 3,000 residential customers.(cass 5) We appreciate the support of Representative Fritz on the project and I can allay her concerns and the Committee concerns that the roadway improvements will be done such that access to all areas will be maintained at all times and I think it will be no problem at all to take care of that aspect of the project.

1989 - 1995

I came across this legal link in which Maguire is mentioned. Included in the text of the case United States v. Aldi (findlaw.com):

Aldi served as City Manager of the City of Meriden, CT from 1988 to 1993. He and Joseph Franco, the City Engineer, were tried for conspiring to solicit and accept bribes. On April 24, 1995, Aldi was convicted on all seven counts of the corruption indictment. Franco was acquitted of all three counts of his corruption indictment. Aldi was separately indicted for bank fraud. On June 5, 1995, Aldi pled guilty to Count Four of the bank fraud indictment....

Between 1989 and 1991, Aldi received $24,000 in illegal cash payments, and all-expense paid trips to a New York Jets football game and the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Aldi was given these payments by Sebastian Amenta of the Maguire Group, an engineering company. In return, Aldi awarded contracts to the Maguire Group in violation of city procedures for selecting contractors.

2007

And according to this North Haven website, four Maguire employees donated to a North Haven political campaign on March 17, 2007. On the linked spreadsheet, you'll see:

Alan P. Asikainen, 48 Nuthatch Nob, Glastonbury
James Fritz, 39 Carrier Court, Southington
Sebastian Amenta, 1166 Woodruff Street, Southington (not available on whitepages.com)
John Treichel, 39 Court Street, Cromwell

(Addresses are blocked on the link. So I called the blogger, Robert Wechsler of North Haven and he provided me with the blocked addresses. As well, he said these s/s's were obtained from North Haven Town Hall.)

Tim White