State Sen. Alex Kasser, D-Greenwich, announced Tuesday that she is resigning from office.
“It is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to resign from office, effective immediately,” Kasser said in her resignation letter to Senate leaders.
Kasser, who is in her second term as state senator, said her decision to resign was “due to personal circumstances and ongoing divorce litigation.”
“I cannot continue to dedicate myself to this job in the way it deserves,” she said.
For three years, Kasser has been engaged in contentious divorce battle with Seth Bergstein, a senior Morgan Stanley executive. Kasser has said Bergstein engaged in coercive control, a type of non-physical violence that can involve manipulative, isolating conduct that traps victims in abusive or violent relationships.
During the 2021 regular legislative session, which ended June 9, Kasser pushed for legislation to expand the criminal definition of domestic violence to include coercive control. That bill, known as Jennifer’s Law, for Jennifer Dulos, or Jennifers’ Law, for Dulos and a different woman named Jennifer, was adopted overwhelmingly.
Kasser created some controversy early in her tenure by hiring an aide using her own personal money in addition to Senate Democrat staff, which led to some concerns about access to systems at the Capitol. The Office of State Ethics issued an informal opinion that the aide’s employment by Kasser - who at the time used the name Bergstein -- was not a violation of state ethics law. Kasser ended the arrangement, saying it was only intended to be temporary.
Kasser later revealed that she was in a romantic relationship with the former aide.
Kasser was a vociferous supporter of...
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