Feds close in on fired Coventry town clerk

Cynthia Diaz, fired Coventry town clerk, treasurer and delinquent tax collector. File photo by John Lazenby
Since 2005, Coventry’s former clerk and treasurer has been the focus of four investigations involving financial fraud — notably the disappearance over more than a decade of an estimated $1.4 million in town funds — with the only legal consequences being a conviction on two counts of state income tax evasion, for which she did community service.
But federal and state inves