Dr. Daniel Govotti testified at today’s ehtics committee hearing that he was a friend of Wilmington Rep. Thomas Wright and agreed to serve as a board member of Wright’s community health foundation. State investigators claim that Wright converted  foundation money to personal use.

Govotti’s wife Karen attended the hearing. In 2005, as director of the Division of Aging and Adult Services, she quitely directed money to a pet project of former House Speaker Richard Morgan. Read the story here.