Peter N. Ellef (born July 23, 1944) is a businessman, white collar criminal, and former public servant from Connecticut.
He was the Chief of Staff to former Republican Connecticut Governor John Rowland, who would later serve one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to corruption charges of accepting bribes.
He flew 144 combat missions during the Vietnam War, including classified ones against targets in Laos and Cambodia.
[3] Ellef was the chairman of the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority when they entered into a $220 million agreement with Enron.
[3] Ellef was sentenced to serve time in prison in April 2006, after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit tax fraud and participating in a bribery scheme, where he accepted gifts, cash and gold coins in exchange for rigging state contracts to favor William A. Tomasso, the head of the Tomasso Group, the contractor and the person bribing him.