Word: capano
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...Capano family, credited with the rapid commercial development of Wilmington, has its share of dirty laundry. In the late 1980s, Louis admitted making illegal campaign contributions. He also participated in an FBI sting that led to the conviction of a county councilman. Another brother, Joseph, 43, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and raping a 27-year-old woman in 1991. He later pleaded guilty to assault, imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact...
Though her family was not as prominent as the Capanos, it was just as well known around Wilmington. Their worlds melded at O'Friel's Irish Pub, where yellow ribbons and a "Friends of Anne Marie" banner now hang. Nicknamed "The Attorney General's Annex Office," O'Friel's is also a place where all five of Fahey's siblings have been employed. It is there that they congregated after Capano's arrest, eating a quiet dinner upstairs. Says O'Friel's owner Kevin Freel: "We sat and talked, and we cried." Fahey, Freel says, left an indelible impression...
Fahey's absence was felt just as strongly at Carper's office, where she playfully called the Governor "T.C." and meticulously arranged his appointments. Says Joan Donoho, a state accountant who lives across the street from the large brick home Thomas Capano rented on Grant Avenue: "When she disappeared, it seemed like the entire state office building was in shock...
...Governor's office that Fahey came to know the other T.C. in her life. Capano's bond work brought him there often, and during the summer of 1993 he and Fahey started having lunch together. But it was not until a search of Fahey's apartment uncovered letters from Capano, as well as a diary chronicling their ups and downs, that their affair was out in the open. In one of her last diary entries, on April 7, 1996, Fahey wrote, "I have finally brought closure to Tom Capano. What a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac...
...closure wasn't quite at hand. On Thursday, June 27, she and Capano had a $154 dinner at Ristorante Panorama, a posh Philadelphia waterfront eatery. A waitress described Fahey as "solemn" and wearing a "forced smile." Fahey had reason to want to move on. According to friends, she had finally found happiness with a man her age, bank executive Mike Scanlan, now 33, whom she met through Carper. She had begun daydreaming about bridesmaid dresses and had got a grip on a long struggle with bulimia (the 5-ft. 10-in. Fahey reportedly once dropped...