NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A former salesman at a Danbury trash hauling company that's at the center of a federal racketeering investigation has pleaded guilty to criminal charges.

Richard Galietti, 35, from 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, who was once lead salesman at Automated Waste Disposal, is to be sentenced July 24.

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