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Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Dan McKee will be investigated by the state Ethics Commission in order to establish whether or not a free lunch violated state campaign finance laws. The commission ...
The latest example of the way it works now:Senate Majority Whip Valarie Lawson, the president of the teachers' union the National Education Association of Rhode Island, asked the Ethics Commission ...
The disclosures led to an Ethics Commission investigation. Following that investigation, Patten, who no longer works for the state, agreed two weeks ago to pay a $5,000 fine.
Operation Clean Government is a nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens' lobby and advocacy organization. [1] The organization was founded in 1993 by Bruce R. Lang and others through the union of three Rhode Island good government groups (Operation Clean Sweep, Rhode Island Taxpayers Association (RITA), and UsPAC) that had formed in response to the credit union crisis in 1991 (45 banks and credit ...
The day the WPRI story was broadcast, Carnevale filed corrections to nine years of financial disclosures he had made to the Rhode Island Ethics Commission since he took office, adding the home in Johnston and two additional lots as additional property he owns that he said were not his primary residence. [31]
Patrick C. Lynch (born February 4, 1965, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American lawyer who served as Rhode Island's 72nd Attorney General.He oversaw the investigation and prosecution of the second-deadliest fire in Rhode Island history, the Station Nightclub Fire, and also sued former lead paint manufacturers for cleanup costs associated with their old products.
The Ethics Commission, responding to a state Republican Party complaint, voted unanimously in July to investigate whether McKee's share of the $228 lunch, paid for by lobbyist and political fixer ...
Early in the race, Hopkins was criticized by his political opponents because the city's had hired all three of his children during his tenure as mayor; [9] later that year, the Rhode Island Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint which accused Hopkins of nepotism in the hiring and promotion of his son-in-law in the city's fire department. [10]