Ex-Connecticut official flees to Greece before sentencing for corruption

Konstantinos Diamantis was convicted by a federal jury last year of extorting private contractors for thousands of dollars in bribes, in exchange for helping the companies keep and obtain work on multimillion-dollar school construction contracts.
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