(Source: courant.com) The former executive director of the Enfield Community Development Corporation, a former quasi-public organization that controlled funding for economic development projects, has been charged with stealing $95,000 in public money from the corporation.

Darrin LaMore, 47, was released on $25,000 bail Friday after his appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge in New Haven. The charge carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.

Assistant Federal Defender Tracy Hayes, representing LaMore, declined to comment on the allegations Tuesday.

The corporation, which is supported by federal funds administered by the state, oversaw redevelopment projects in town, primarily in the Thompsonville section of town.

In early March 2017, LaMore “confessed to knowingly misappropriating grant funds to pay his salary and to falsifying” invoices sent to the state in May and July 2015, during an interview with an FBI special agent.

From June 2012 to October 2015, Lamore “conspired with an employee of Enfield to falsify invoices and divert funds intended for economic development in Enfield and apply them to LaMore’s salary,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

The ECDC received funding from the Community Development Block Grant program, the state Department of Economic and Community Development and through brownfield grants typically used for hazardous substance remediation.

The ECDC was created by the town council in the 1980s to develop housing in town, and the council oversaw the board of directors. In 2010, the council spun the ECDC off as a private nonprofit but continued to act as a pass-through for state funding...