ROBERT CAPPELLETTI, 60, of Middlebury, has been charged in a nine-count indictment with fraud and money laundering offenses related to employment as the executive director of housing authorities in Meriden and Groton.
The announcement was made by David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; P.J. O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI; and Shawn Rice, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Region.
On September 22, 2026, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging Cappelletti with five counts of wire fraud and four counts of making illegal monetary transactions, and Cappelletti was arrested today. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Spector in New Haven, pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment, and…
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