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Former Providence Tax Collector Robert Ceprano says Mayor David N. Cicilline is making him a scapegoat in the controversy over a bad check that Cicilline's brother gave to the city on behalf of a delinquent taxpayer.

Cicilline fired Ceprano last week following an audit report on the check and the operations of the tax collector's office.

In an exclusive interview with The Providence Journal's Mike Stanton, Ceprano, a 28-year veteran of the IRS, responded to criticism from Cicilline that Ceprano ran an office without policies and procedures and that Ceprano erred in accepting the bad check. Ceprano says he wouldn't play the kind of political games once common in the collection of city taxes.

Read Stanton's complete story in The Sunday Journal and on projo.com.

 Tags  Providence R.I.

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Thomas Rayner said:

Yeah You tell e'm tell it all.

Link | January 30, 2009 4:20 PM
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Stu Bovelsky said:

Robert Ceprano was the first honest employee in the city administration so he had to be removed by the corrupt politicians! How can an honest man work for these corrupt people?

Link | January 31, 2009 8:45 AM
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