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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...
...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...
...next day, city officials discovered that weekly city payroll records for 1976 to 1979 were missing from the archives. But the city controller maintained that janitors there routinely loss out old records to make room for new ones. If anyone wants the information in those records--say. Tony Mancuso looking into corruption in city government--it can be reconstructed from other permanent sources, he added...
...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...
...Chief Mancuso, then, gets to keep office--but Paolino and Mancuso will have a hard time kicking private-eye. Vinnic O'Connell off the police department, because state law requires them to have a solid cause for rescinding an appointment made by a city official--who was, in this case, old Sandy Gorodetsky...