NEW HAVEN (AP) _ A former salesman at a Danbury trash hauling company that's at the center of a federal racketeering investigation has pleaded guilty.

Richard Galietti, a 35-year-old Fort Myers, Fla., Thursday pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiring to violate the federal racketeering act.

He also admitted he asked his cousin, a Connecticut State Police trooper, to run license plate information to see if Galietti and others were under investigation.

Thirty-three people have been charged in the federal investigation into alleged organized crime influence in the Connecticut trash hauling business.

Galietti is to be sentenced July 24.



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