PROSECUTORS APOLOGIZE TO MAYOR IN CONNECTICUT

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Federal prosecutors inadvertently filed a court
document saying the mayor of Connecticut's largest city had used
cocaine, but after a newspaper reported it Friday, they took the
unusual step of apologizing to the mayor and had the document sealed.

Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi (D), who took office after Joseph Ganim
was convicted of corruption in 2003, declined to address the
allegations in an interview but said he had made "poor choices in the
past."

Fabrizi was named in a summary of an FBI interview with Juan Marrero,
who faces cocaine-trafficking charges. Marrero said an associate told
him of a videotape of Fabrizi using cocaine, according to the
Connecticut Post, which reviewed the document.

U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said Friday that Fabrizi was not a
target of the drug investigation. He said FBI reports, which
summarize statements made by witnesses but are not always
corroborated, are typically filed under seal.

"We made a mistake here, and I apologize to the mayor and anybody
else named there," O'Connor said in a telephone interview. "That
information should not have come out in that form and that manner."