To paraphrase one attorney: Joseph Ganim dug himself a hole too deep to climb out of.
The state Supreme Court on April 9 rejected a bid by the former Bridgeport mayor to regain his law license, a license that was suspended after he was sentenced to prison in 2003 and served seven years on corruption charges. In all, Ganim, who was mayor from 1991 to 2003, was convicted on 16 charges, including extortion, bribery and racketeering. He was accused of steering city contracts to companies and individuals who gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in expensive wine, custom clothes, cash and home improvements.
