Man accused of trying to bribe a judge
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April 21, 2012
Sherman, Connecticut: State police have arrested a man who is charged with offering a judge a $100,000 bribe in an effort to influence a grand jury investigation of his wife's disappearance.[1]
According to the authorities, 76-year-old Dominic Badaracco offered New Britain District Superior Court Judge Robert Brunetti the $100,000 in November of 2010, just two months after the grand jury investigation began.[1]
According to court documents, Judge Robert Brunetti occasionally would play golf with Dominic Badaracco and his fellow business partner. Badaracco called Judge Brunetti in November of 2012, asking for help, saying, "I'm only gonna say this one time ... it's worth a hundred Gs."[2]
That is when Judge Brunetti hung up the phone, and consequently reported it. "I understood it was about the Badaracco murder and he was asking me to have some influence over the outcome of the grand jury ... like sweep it under the rug," Judge Brunetti told police.[2]
Dominic Badaracco is considered a suspect in the 1984 disappearance of Mary Badaracco, who was reported missing by her daughters on August 31, 1984 because they had neither heard nor seen their mother in several days.[2]
Dominic Badaracco told the daughters that he had last seen Mary Badaracco on August 20, and that she had just up and left, taking all her belongings. However, Mary's car was still in the driveway and the windshield was smashed, according to the court records documenting the case.[2]
Dominic Badaracco went on to divorce Mary Badaracco in August of 1985, just one year after she disappeared.[2]
Mary was declared legally dead in 1991, but her case still remains open and is being treated as a homicide.[2]
Dominic Badaracco has been charged with offering an illegal gift and is due in court on April 25th. He has been released on a $150,000 bond.[1]
State police were at the Badaracco house in February, executing search warrants and using heavy equipment to dig up the yard. As of now, nothing has been reported found.[2]
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