during his campaign, ganim promised to reduce taxes, lower crime by adding more police officers, and lower unemployment, which is high in bridgeport. he managed to persuade edward adams, a former fbi agent who helped convict ganim on corruption charges, to support his campaign. however, michael wolf, the fbi special agent-in-charge of connecticut during the ganim investigation, fired back with a letter published in the "connecticut post" saying that adams was not the lead investigator in the ganim case, and writing that "a mayor who swindled a city he was entrusted to govern, should not be given the opportunity to do it again." wolf called ganim the "poster boy" of corrupt connecticut politicians, a group that included former governor john g. rowland, former state treasurer paul j. silvester, and former bridgeport state senator ernest newton ii.