Ex-Connecticut Governor Goes Off Air Amid Campaign-Finance Inquiry

John G. Rowland, the former Connecticut governor who was identified in federal court as a co-conspirator in a new investigation of improper campaign financing, quit his afternoon radio talk show, saying he was leaving the station to “take care of some personal issues.” Jenneen Lee, the program director at WTIC News Talk 1080, confirmed that the station, based in Farmington, had accepted Rowland’s decision. Shortly after Rowland signed off, his blog and his profile were removed from WTIC’s website. Lisa Wilson-Foley, a Republican who was a candidate for the Fifth Congressional District, and her husband, a nursing home operator, pleaded guilty in a scheme to create a fake contract that hid the consulting role Rowland, a former congressman from the same district, played in her campaign.