Hartford based attorney and cannabis entrepreneur Kevin T. Henry, who is named in federal subpoenas seeking information on Sen. Douglas McCrory, D-Hartford, and millions of dollars sent to Hartford-based nonprofits, served as McCrory’s deputy treasurer during his 2018 state senate campaign and donated to McCrory’s 2022 and 2024 campaigns.

Records from the State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) show that, aside of working for McCrory’s campaign in 2018, in 2015 Henry donated $500 toward the committee to elect Foye Smith, who was McCrory’s wife at the time, to become a probate judge. He also donated $290 and $250 to McCrory’s 2022 and 2024 campaigns, respectively. 

The subpoenas served on the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and the Minority Business Initiative (MBI) involve several nonprofits and a tangled web of intersecting names; Connecticut is a small state when it comes to politics, and Hartford is smaller still. Henry is named in the subpoenas both personally and through his consulting company, KTH Advisors, LLC. 

Henry, who serves as a commissioner for Hartford’s Housing Authority, also serves on the Boys & Girls Club Board of Trustees alongside Sonserae Cicero-Hamlin, who is also named in the federal probe as authorities seek information regarding her professional and personal relationship with McCrory after the senator pushed hundreds of thousands of state dollars toward her nonprofit startup.

Henry was also listed as a guest speaker for Cicero’s 2022 “Social Equity Conference Program,” held at the Artists’ Collective in Hartford, along with several members of Connecticut’s Social Equity Council. The program was offered under her company, Melanated Marijuana, which purports to offer training and small business tools for cannabis startups.

Henry shares a law partnership with fellow attorney Kevin R. Joiner, whose law office not only represented McCrory’s ex-wife during their 2020 divorce, but has also represented the Hartford Economic Development Corporation (HEDCO) in nearly a dozen court cases since 2021 seeking repayment of defaulted loans. Joiner was listed as the agent for KTH Advisors, according to state business records. Joiner has not been named in any capacity in the federal subpoenas.

HEDCO, which serves as an administrator of state-backed, low-interest loans to Hartford area small businesses and startups, is also named in the federal subpoenas as it partnered with Cicero-Hamlin’s Society of Human Engagement and Business Alignment (SHEBA) to require loan applicants to go through SHEBA’s business certification program before being eligible for a loan.

Although not indicated in the subpoenas sent to DECD, the Hartford Courant reported that federal investigators are also questioning Connecticut’s legalized cannabis licensing process.

In 2023, Henry opened a legal cannabis shop in Hartford as the social equity owner under a joint venture with Curaleaf and Greenwich-based investors. At the time, Mayor Luke Bronin and McCrory both attended the grand opening. Two years later, the shop closed without explanation or notice. In June of 2025, the Hartford Courant reported that Henry was now chief operating officer of The Goods THC, a Hartford-based cannabis micro cultivator that obtained a license under the state’s social equity licensing system.

Federal grand jury subpoenas are simply requests for information, and while no specific allegations have been made, it does indicate a federal investigation into how money was distributed to several Hartford area nonprofits connected in various ways to Cicero-Hamlin’s SHEBA organizations, McCrory, Henry, and others.

While the subjects of the subpoenas have not issued statements, in an interview conducted several months ago by CT Insider, McCrory and Cicero denied doing anything illegal, but also did not offer details on the nature of their relationship.

Documents obtained by Inside Investigator through a Freedom of Information Act request that took a year and a half for DECD to fulfill show McCrory advocating for $300,000 in state funds to be directed toward Cicero-Hamlin, as well as requesting that other funds be pushed toward her consulting company. SHEBA was also part of a $5 million award to Girls for Technology.

But other nonprofits, including the Blue Hills Civic Association (BHCA), have been caught up in the controversy. BHCA was the victim of a wire transfer theft of $300,000, which forced them to shut down; similarly, the Prosperity Foundation, run by Minority Business Initiative board member Howard K. Hill, lost $200,000 in another wire transfer.

Other than an association with both McCrory and Cicero-Hamlin, it is unclear how Henry or his KTH Advisors company fits into the federal probe or the myriad of nonprofits caught up in it. Federal subpoenas are not an indication of wrongdoing, and Henry has been deeply involved in city politics throughout much of his career.

According to Henry’s law office profile, he “served as vice president of the Hartford Partnership for the Metro Hartford Alliance Chamber of Commerce, where he was responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing economic development strategies for the Office of the Mayor for the City of Hartford and the Hartford Chamber Board of Directors.” He was selected to serve as an alternate member on the City of Hartford’s Planning and Zoning Commission by Mayor Bronin in 2018.

Henry’s donations toward McCrory’s campaigns in 2022 and 2024 list Henry’s employer as PKV, LLC, a company formed by Carlos Mouta in 2014 under the Law Offices of Kevin Joiner. Mouta went on to form the highly successful Parkville Market on Park Street in Hartford.

**This article originally reported that Henry opened four legal cannabis shops. This article was updated to reflect that Henry was only the social equity owner of the Higher Collective Hartford retail location. The other locations are individually owned by other licensed social equity partners**

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