Philip A. Giordano, who ran Waterbury from a prison cell for three months before losing re-election in November 2001, was the third consecutive Waterbury mayor to be indicted. And if Connecticut residents were never proud of that reputation, at least they knew what to expect. (No one, including the F.B.I., expected Mr. Giordano to be a child molester, but then again, he was caught only after federal agents tapped his cellphone looking for corruption.) In Bridgeport, Joseph P. Ganim, now a convicted felon who has yet to say whether he will resign before his July 1 sentencing date, is only the latest addition to a decades-long legacy of municipal corruption. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, more than a dozen members of Mayor John C. Mandanici's administration were convicted on state and federal corruption charges.