Word: cianci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gerrymandering of senate districts proved so crude that the courts ruled it unconstitutional. Over the past year 16 Providence city employees and vendors were indicted by grand juries on charges ranging from extortion to payroll padding. To cap the political profession's embarrassment, Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr. was forced to resign last April after pleading no contest to charges of assault against a man who he said was having an affair with his wife...
Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr.'s most prized political perk was a Lincoln Continental with maroon seats and license plates with the number 10000. Last week the sleek sedan shared space next to city hall with a moving van. After nearly ten years in office, during which he was praised for revitalizing the city and tainted by the corruption that surrounded him, the effervescent mayor was forced to resign because of a felony conviction: he received a suspended five-year prison sentence for assaulting a man he claimed was having an affair with his estranged wife...
...Cianci's exit capped a tumultuous week in Providence. Public Safety Commissioner Sanford Gorodetsky quit after trying to oust the police chief, Anthony Mancuso, who refused to leave. The city highway superintendent and two public-works employees were charged with extorting payoffs from contractors, bringing to six the total of city employees indicted during the past year. State troopers stood sentry at city hall after city workers were seen shredding documents. In a special election set for July 17, Acting Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr. is considered the leading contender. But the redoubtable Cianci has hinted that he wants...
...Cianci officially left office--with state police combing through all his memorabilia before it left City Hall forever--at 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, and Joseph P. Paolino Jr., the city council president, took office a little after 8 p.m. Paolino had to get special permission because he's only 28 years old Paolino vowed that, upon assuming the office of 90-day temporary mayor, he would fire Sandy Gorodetsky and reinstate Chief Mancuso Unfortunately. Sandy resigned on Tuesday to avoid being fired by Paolino, along with the chief of the disreputable...
Three days after Paolino moved into his temporary home, more than five men had announced they will run for mayor in the August election. Another five or so more candidate are expected soon--and one of them, according to intimations from the former mayor, might just be Vinnie Cianci. Stay tuned for more of Providence's best story in a decade...