Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror

A federal grand jury issued a subpoena demanding New Britain produce documents related to former Mayor Erin Stewart’s alleged misuse of a city credit card, her challenged tuition reimbursements, a social club membership and the Mayor’s Trophy Charitable Fund.

The city is demanding $241,560 from its former mayor to recover tuition reimbursements, severance payments and the legal costs related to investigating how the city says she improperly boosted her income over 12 years running city hall.

In the end, Stewart received nearly $122,000 in separation payments before they were cut off in February. The appropriate amount, the city calculated, would have been $14,275.

Connecticut’s attorney general and commissioner of consumer protection opened an investigation into former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart’s handling of charitable assets for the Mayor’s Trophy Charitable Fund, the latest blow to a politician whose career imploded last month.

An anti-LGBTQ+ social media post by Jadon MacCormack, a Republican candidate and religious podcaster in the 50th House District of Eastern Connecticut, drew bipartisan condemnation, including a suggestion by the leader of the House Republican minority that MacCormack end his campaign.

The campaign of Congressman John B. Larson took a populist turn Tuesday with a press call casting his chief rival, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, as an agent of a shadowy network of billionaires. But the primary evidence offered was Bronin’s connection to a progressive advocacy group, The Connecticut Project.

Connecticut Republicans united Saturday behind a 36-year-old state senator, Ryan Fazio of Greenwich, as their choice to push the GOP past the scandal that derailed the former convention favorite, Erin Stewart, and on to the challenge of unseating an incumbent governor for the first time in 72 years.

Erin Stewart suspended her campaign for governor Thursday after an investigative report concluded that her personal use of a city credit card as mayor of New Britain was a “repeated and deliberate circumvention of the city’s purchase order system to benefit herself, members of her family, and her political campaigns.”

Republican gubernatorial candidate Erin Stewart promised supporters at a campaign rally Tuesday night she will make a substantive response to reports about her use of a city credit card for personal purchases while mayor of New Britain — but not until after this weekend’s nominating convention.

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin won the Democratic endorsement for Congress in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District on the second ballot Monday night, upsetting the 14-term incumbent, John B. Larson, and setting the stage for a primary in August.