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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Outgoing U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente on July 1 will join Burns & Levinson LLP, a Boston-based law firm looking to expand its practice in Rhode Island.

Corrente, 52, announced last week that he would be leaving his federal post in Rhode Island June 26, but declined to detail which firm he would join. The firm publicized his new job Tuesday.

"His addition gives us the ability to better serve the Rhode Island business community, and will enable us to establish a niche in the white-collar crime area that is somewhat unique to a full-service law firm," said Sean Coffey, partner in the Rhode Island office and member of the firm's executive committee.

During his four-year tenure, Corrente led Operation Dollar Bill, the investigation that landed former North Providence state Sen. John A. Celona and House Majority Leader Gerard M. Martineau, D-Woonsocket, in federal prison for selling their offices. Ex-Roger Williams Medical Center President Robert A. Urciuoli, too, was convicted of mail fraud in a case under appeal.

Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse in May recommended Peter F. Neronha, an assistant U.S. attorney here since 2002 and a former state prosecutor, to succeed Corrente. President Obama has not yet made a nomination for the seat.

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