Connie is terrible, don't bother. Mercury if you want scanning, cargo, and data transport careers. Corsair if you want light cargo, long range exploration/scanning, and a fairly large amount of firepower.
Bring the heretics into the fold my fellow TESTies! For we accept the poor (preferably poor due to buying loads of ships) the crippled (we have endeavors to fix them) and the sick (well, there is always biological warfare if the whole endeavor thing doesn't work out) willingly!
It was a one time thing to promote their GPU from what I know, while CIG has developed a much closer relationship with Intel over the past year or two.
Had that issue as well. Prayed to the God Emperor Montoya for protection and spent 3 hours beating myself with a chain in repentance. Problems are fixed.
I also cleared cookies.
It's planned that if you board someone ship without permission you get a crimestat and if you take components it will trigger a theft crimestat as well.
Edit: Disabling a ship would mean attacking it, which triggers criminal status as well.