19 September—It appears now that thanks to the eternal self-interest of Connecticut’s elected politicians who have nevertheless lined up to decry the “shame” (the very word all the hypocrites haven’t waited to heap on him) Kosta Diamantis has brought upon the state’s political establishment (i.e., themselves, although they don’t actually put it that honestly), the convicted felon and fugitive may continue to collect his handsome state pension to support his new, doubtless extremely comfortable life in Greece.

Hardly a day after Kosta’s on-off-on-again mouthpiece Norm Pattis (who must have known his defense of the rogue public official was bound to fail) announced his delinquent client’s escape to Greece, Pattis filed suit to keep the scumbag’s $76,000-a-year pension going at least until certain due processes were seen to, which would have allowed Kosta to contest the pension suspension essentially on technicalities. Of course Pattis knew nothing about Kosta’s flight to freedom until Kosta phoned him from Greece with the revelation. Of course. And of course.

Even now Pattis is merely representing his disreputable client diligently and vigorously, because that’s what lawyers are required and paid handsomely to do. That’s precisely how Pattis was representing scumbag Alex Jones when he got himself suspended in 2023—originally for six months, reduced to two weeks on retrial, the latter upheld on appeal less than a year ago—for misconduct in Jones’s defamation trial.

You’ve got to feel sorry for poor Kosta because, as he told Hearst columnist Dan Haar yesterday (by phone, of course), first, he’s innocent (of course), then: “It was knee-jerk and it was last-minute and it was hurtful. I didn’t like what I did. I want to come back to the country that I belong to and be with my family and my kids.”

For some reason, Kosta’s drive from Connecticut to Florida, cruise to the Bahamas, flight to London and then to Greece—all on the Greek passport he got after his conviction and neglected to surrender along with his U.S. passport—doesn’t seem like it was knee-jerk or last-minute. If he really didn’t like what he did, he shouldn’t have done it, any of it. And if he really wants to come back to the country he claims he belongs to, nothing’s stopping him. And aren’t his kids in his family?

Kosta also told Haar that he knew how to build stone walls and farm if he had to make money while in Greece. But the $76,000 state pension would be much easier . . .