
The Mayor of Favor Town: Buddy Cianci
Ridiculous Crime
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Is This a Lewinsky Joke?
In 2000, Pannon and Glancy are sentenced to five and two years in prison. Corrente gets indicted in 2000. The FBI says that all throughout the 90s, the mayor's office had extorted more than $2 million in kickbacks, jobs, favors, contracts. In a statement released later that day, he went with the statement, not a press conference. He was denied entrance to the city's university club back during his first reign as mayor. It was one of the many charges against Buddy involved at the University of Rhode Island.
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