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N4N is taking the day off, so expect limited blogging today . . . Last week, Brassband , writing at RI's Future, took note of a Politico list in which Rhode Island didn't place among the 35 most corrupt states. Yesterday, the NYT Week in Review...
Last week, Brassband made a post over at RI's Future, showing a Politico list of most-corrupt states from which Rhode Island was absent. Today, the NYT Week in Review digs a little deeper : Multimedia Graphic Number of Guilty Officials Graphic The...
Speaking of Blagojevich . . . Some RI officials have maintained our reputation for corruption is overstated and inflated by our small size. I looked at the issue, and the significance of prosecutors examining the private sector (something that hasn't...
While we Rhode Islanders are well-versed in the typical one degree of separation hereabout, Boston, our big city neighbor to the north, is also a very small town when you get down to it. Case in point is how No. 9 Park , a lovely upscale restaurant in...
US Attorney Robert Clark Corrente scored a win with this week's conviction of Robert Urciuoli . Yet given the relative lack of forward public momentum on Operation Dollar Bill -- which Corrente himself once identified as an active investigation of...
From the US attorney's office: A federal jury today found Robert A. Urciuoli, the former president of Roger Williams Medical Center, guilty of corruptly employing former Rhode Island Senator John Celona to advance the Medical Center’s interests in...
The speed with which a US District Court jury arrived at its acquittal last week of Jack Kramer and Carlos Ortiz marked a sharp rebuke to the case assembled by US Attorney Robert Clark Corrente's team of federal prosecutors. And as Mike Stanton reported...
State budget is out of whack and the local economy is sucking wind? Check . Dems run the show in the legislature, and Republicans can't get a foothold? Check. Quintessential boondoggle involving dubious activity (around the Central Landfill)? Check ....
Both via BeloBlog : PROVIDENCE -- Former House Majority Leader Gerard M. Martineau this morning was sentenced to 37 months in prison on corruption charges. Judge Mary M. Lisi also ordered him to pay a $100,000 fine and serve two years of supervised probation...
Bill Harsch, a two-time loser in his runs for AG against Patrick Lynch, has been appointed by Governor Carcieri to the state Ethics Commission. Deborah Cerullo, who matches Arlene Violet in having a religious (nun) and prosecutor background, has also...
This just in from the US attorney : United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced today that his office intends to retry the case of U.S. v. Robert Urciuoli and Frances Driscoll, two former hospital officials accused of corruptly employing a...
From BeloBlog : In a major decision announced this afternoon, a federal appeals court has vacated the corruption convictions of two former top Roger Williams Medical Center executives and ordered a new trial. Robert A. Urciuoli, the former president of...
While most everyone was focused yesterday afternoon on New Hampshire, the office of Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch released a statement about a proposal to counter public corruption. Although it seems a bit unusual for this kind of thing to drop shortly...
House Speaker William J. Murphy just returned the call I placed earlier today to his spokesman , Larry Berman. Murphy declined to answer questions about the issues surrounding the tax break not received by Duie Pyle, but he did share these words, seemingly...
Jeff Britt, a central figure in the FBI's investigation of possible State House chicanery and A. Duie Pyle's non-receipt of a $333,000 tax break, was previously Governor Carcieri's liaison to "dissident Democrats" in the General Assembly. A few years...
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