"R.I. ex-mayor freed after year in prison" by Michelle R. Smith | Associated Press, March 01, 2014
PROVIDENCE — A corrupt former Rhode Island mayor was freed from prison early Friday as part of a complicated deal struck with federal and state prosecutors after an appeals court threw his 2012 conviction into question.
Charles Moreau, former mayor of the financially troubled city of Central Falls, was released after first pleading guilty to a new charge of accepting a bribe, then being sentenced on that charge to time served. US District Court Judge John McConnell then vacated Moreau’s 2012 conviction, allowing him to walk free.
He served just under one year of a two-year sentence....
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