Connecticut: Tara Bryson and Michael Hearl are drug dealers (and animal abusers!)

Wealthy people get all the breaks - it's the American way. After getting her 'drug dealer' charge pleaded down to basically a possession charge, Bryson and Hearl somehow talked the state of Connecticut to hand them $50,000 in taxpayer money to 'start a goat milk business'. They then starved the animals to death and may have sickened hundreds of people as they lied about the milk being pasteurized. 

Is Connecticut going to grow a pair this time and properly prosecute these career criminals???!

CONNECTICUT -- An executive at a Ridgefield hedge fund is accused of diversifying her investments and dabbling in the illegal world of marijuana farming will not go to jail.

Tara Bryson, 36, and her boyfriend, Michael Hearl, 38, were arrested in July and police seized more than 200 pot plants from the couple’s (million dollar) Butterfield Road home,the Newtown Bee reported at the time.

 

Bryson’s arrest report shows Connecticut State police found over 203 marijuana plants in her million dollar Newtown home so the charges being dropped down from "cultivation of marijuana" to only "possession less than four ounces" appears to be a lucky break given to wealthy people with connections. 

I previously reported her live-in boyfriend Michael Hearl also plead guilty and will serve two years in jail; which reads like he took one for team because Tara Bryson won’t be joining him in the slammer.

The hit to Bryson’s wallet appears to be only in the form of legal cost because the State is asking her to pay a measly $15 fine.

If the State had held to the original pot farm cultivation charges, they’d filed against Bryson last July, she’d be facing felony charges and up to 7 years prison time.

Bryson ran investor relations for New Stream Capital, which her brother, David Bryson, co-founded, Forbes reports. Her hedge fund clients have included Veronica Hearst, Elizabeth Taylor and Kathy Ireland, Forbes reports.

Bryson was suspended when an article about the arrest surfaced, a New Stream spokesperson told Forbes.

Hearl told Forbes that they farm goats, not weed and they did not “have that many plants.”

By "not many," he meant 203 plants, according to the arrest report.

The couple received a $50,000 grant from the state this year to transform their Ridgefield property into a goat farm, according to New York magazine.

This is why the government is corrupt. Why would anyone give this woman $50,000 when she is a convicted drug dealer? Do you think the state would just hand you $50,000 if you told them you lived in a million-dollar home, was a convicted drug dealer and wanted government assistance to buy some goats and "start a farm"? They would laugh you right out the door!

 

 

The goat business was probably a sham to hide money
laundering or a continued drug dealing business

The hedge fund Bryson was a part of has run into its share of problems, Dealbreaker.com reports, and has filed for bankruptcy, according to Business Insider.

(NBC Connecticut - April 27, 2011)