Posted: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:05 am
By Eli Sherman | Sherman@PBN.com
Providence Business News
On a hot, sunny day in the fall of 2008, two Providence businessmen met at the office of the vice chairman of Providence's Board of Licenses to pay him $52,500 in bribes.
Gordon D. Fox, then an East Side lawyer and state representative who later became House speaker, accepted the money in exchange for pushing a controversial liquor-license application through the city's vetting process...
One year after the charges Fox agreed to plead guilty to were first made public, the board is still wrestling with the public relations fallout. And despite Mayor Jorge O. Elorza's ongoing efforts to streamline licensing and permitting in the city, complaints from license holders of inefficiency and inconsistency continue to hound the board, whose members are appointed by the mayor and paid between $19,000 and $25,000 a year.
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