North Carolina woman paid $147,000 to help Fotis Dulos post his bond
By
DAVE ALTIMARI and
EDMUND H. MAHONY
HARTFORD COURANT
JAN 29, 2020 | 8:05 PM
Police raced to Fotis Dulos' Farmington home Tuesday after he attempted suicide. A North Carolina woman who paid nearly $147,000 toward Dulos' bond was questioned at the house after the suicide attempt. (Mark Mirko)
Fotis Dulos was able to post the $6 million bond after he was arrested for the murder of his estranged wife because Anna Curry, a North Carolina woman, contributed $147,000 in cash and promised to pay another $272,000 more, according to records obtained by the Courant.
The bond became a critical issue this week when it became the subject of an emergency court hearing Tuesday. Instead of going to the hearing Tuesday — and possibly being sent back to jail if his bail was revoked — Dulos attempted suicide at his Farmington home, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
The state had sought to revoke the bond because the Palmetto Surety Company, which secured it, was now saying it no longer would do so because the collateral used to secure it wasn’t sufficient. Palmetto underwrote the bond with six pieces of real estate — but two of them, including the Jefferson Crossing home — are in foreclosure and a third is significantly overvalued.
Dulos referred to Curry, a former co-worker of Dulos at a New York financial firm, as his “best friend” in the bond documents. Curry signed a $3 million promissory note and was one of two indemnitors listed on the documents. The other is a high profile private investigator from Fairfield County who initially was hired by Dulos’ lawyers. The bond package has since been questioned by the South Carolina insurance company that initially underwrote it.
