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The mayors brother passes a bad check to the city for 75 grand and the mayor knows nothing about it until today. Yea ok.

Imagine the City of Providence not taking action against a taxpayer in a situation like this. I don't. In my experience with the City of Providence, when you owe taxes and become delinquent, they take action and fast. I remember a friend being taken to small claims court for oversue taxes and another one not being able to renew his license. This sounds like a bunch of baloney to me, maybe conjured by opponents of the Mayor!

Politics in Providence, is the City really a worthwhile prize? Maybe it was, but it is not now.

Take this with a pinch of salt and make a sauce from it!

"Southern said that the mayor was unaware of the situation until today". Boy, Mayor Cicilline doesn't seem to know alot of things.....

The corruption in this state is totally out of control, and the average voter could care less. They keep voting the same old corrupt hacks in, and this is where we are. What a shame...this is a great state, but we're going to lose it if we keep going in this direction. New blood...preferably Republican blood for a change!! It worked for New Orleans!

It is rather clear and evident that John Cicilline was involved, as they said, with shaking his drug dealing clients for financial gain. A kind of extortion racket like in the old days.

Now, this is what I don't understand and I'll bet that there's probably 10,000 people who will be asking the same questions.

How in the world does the Mayor of Providence, the brother of John Cicilline, not know that his brother was/is involved in the extortion racket and not know that his brother's firm was sticking it to the city of Providence?

How? Someone, please tell me how David Cicilline, has no clue of his brother's business practices? Especially when John's business has to do with the city of Providence?

In October 2007 I received a notice from a collection agency, hired by the City of Providence, for an outstanding car tax bill on a car that I owned for 3 months in 1994 (yes, 1994). The total came to over $150.00 due to interest accrued. Since I don't keep bank records for 13 years I had no way to prove I paid, so...I had to pay (but to be fair, the city adjusted the bill so I only had to pay 50%). So if the city can keep track of a $60.00 car tax bill for 13 years, I find it VERY hard to believe they didn't keep track of and inform the mayor of an oustanding $75,000 bill.

In October 2007 I received a notice from a collection agency, hired by the City of Providence, for an outstanding car tax bill on a car that I owned for 3 months in 1994 (yes, 1994). The total came to over $150.00 due to interest accrued. Since I don't keep bank records for 13 years I had no way to prove I paid, so...I had to pay (but to be fair, the city adjusted the bill so I only had to pay 50%). So if the city can keep track of a $60.00 car tax bill for 13 years, I find it VERY hard to believe they didn't keep track of and inform the mayor of an oustanding $75,000 bill.

And how many of us would get away with bouncing a check of any amount, never mind $75,000, on the City of Providence?

Ah, but they are saying that the check was not bounced:
"...when Hammer tried to cash the check, the bank told the lawyer that there were insufficient funds in Cicilline’s account to cover it.
Since the check wasn’t actually deposited, said Southern, Cicilline did not bounce the check."

Just this summer I went to my bank to deposit a check from a customer whose account was overdue. Just to be on the safe side, I asked the clerk to ascertain that there were sufficient funds in his account, as the check was drawn on the same bank. The clerk told me that she could not divulge that information, as it would constitute an invasion of privacy. Assuming that this is standard bank policy, I would question Hammer's story.

Anyway, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and a bad check is still not worth the paper it is printed on. It is a crime to pass a bad check, and a felony when the amount is over $500. For people in positions of trust, especially with large amounts of money such as real estate agents and lawyers, it is usually also sufficiently serious to warrant revocation of one's license to practice.

There was an interesting article in Newsweek about the town of Salemi in Sicily, whose mayor is trying to attract foreign buyers by selling for one euro houses that had been ruined in a 1968 earthquake, provided that the buyers agree to renovate them over a two-year period using local artisans. The problem is the town's proximity to Mafia dons. One potential buyer, Michel Delran, is quoted in the article as saying, "We can't ignore the Mafia, but by raising the interest in this project [Mayor]Sgarbi has given it visibility that should act as a deterrent. Corruption may be there, but with everyone watching, they may think twice."

WELL LIKE FATHER JACK F. LIKE SON JOHN M.THOUGHT DAVID HAD MORE INTEGRITY THAN HIS TWO RELATIVES!

A group of citizens of Melissa Texas 75454 who have grave concerns of the integrity of our Mayor David E. Dorman. We do feel the Rico Act concerns with public corruption is at the stem of our cities problems.

Mayor Dorman has a huge amount of property bought under various names including DHT & Flamingo Daze. We feel that he sold our water tower land to the city with insider information. This would only be one single issue that would cost the city money.

We desire to live with freedom in our city. To be able to speak at and ask questions of our leaders without the punishment that Mayor Dorman has cast on those that do. Many people in town have lost property at the gain of our officials. Millions of tax dollars spent on dirty attorneys for the mayor to fight private citizens.

To stay on the property we have purchased without it being stolen from us with no compensation which is what has occurred daily under the rein of Mayor David Dorman A fair election to be held without the mayor filing a lawsuit on candidates.

What Melissa stood for prior to Mayor David Dorman. We love the fact that the public corruption in our city will be put to a stop if we speak loud enough.

We have a community who has had a majority of residents and business pushed off their property by this man and those in office with him. We believe they are puppets and follow his lead. These men and women will face criminal prosecution when an indictment is issued. Citizens have asked the integrity unit in Washington DC. Justice Dept to look into this matter