NBC 10 I-Team: North Providence judge paid while not on the job | WJAR‏

By PARKER GAVIGAN, NBC 10 NEWS |Thursday, May 12th 2016
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Forty-seven paychecks were paid out over 21 months.
The part-time job was worth $609 a month, $14,016 in total, according to payroll records obtained by the NBC 10 I-Team.

But the employee was no longer on the job.

"I will answer the questions. I will take the blame. I will take the heat, as we take all the 'attaboys' when good things happen," North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi said.

The mayor appointed Louis DeQuattro Jr. to the town's municipal court, as a judge, in August 2011. By the end of March 2014, he stopped hearing cases.
Why?

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The magistrates bill is up for a hearing today in the House Judiciary and the Ethics amendment is posted for tomorrow(Thursday) in Senate Judiciary.  It's really important that we have our League members and friends of Good Government there. 

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