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09/28/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that two Providence men were sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to their roles in a wide-scale illegal straw-purchasing scheme involving the purchase and sale of 89...
09/16/2021
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the constitutionality of state election finance law requiring disclosures and disclaimers for certain election-related expenditures of $1,000 or more PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha's defense of a state...
09/14/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Central Falls man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 10 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for shooting and wounding a patron outside of a Providence nightclub in 2019. Hector Osorio (...
09/09/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement after today's decision in Champlin's v. CRMC: "Rhode Islanders should be deeply disappointed by today's Superior Court decision and rightly worried about what this decision means for us should it survive its...
09/09/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Massachusetts man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 15 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI), stemming from his role in a violent home invasion in Providence in 2013. Angel Navarro (age 31)
09/09/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Woonsocket man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve five years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) stemming from his arrest in 2020 by the Woonsocket Police Department while in possession on...
09/08/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that a Cranston man was sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 27 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) after pleading to the murder of his three-month-old son, Giovanni Romero, in 2016. Elias Romero (...
09/03/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Statement from Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on the passing of former Chief of the Civil Division of the Office of the Attorney General, James R. Lee: "Jim was a cornerstone of the Attorney General's Office for many years, and he leaves a legacy as an outstanding and...
09/02/2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following statement today after today's announcement about health insurance rates by the Office of the Health Insurance: "Several weeks ago, my Office objected —across the board — to requests by insurers to raise health insurance...
08/31/2021
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking gives the public the first of many opportunities to provide input PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Colonel James M. Manni, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of Public Safety, announced the start of...