Scoundrels: Defining Corruption Through Tales of Political Intrigue in Rhode Island by Blacke Thomas & Caranci Paul

Author:Blacke, Thomas & Caranci, Paul [Blacke, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stillwater River Publications
Published: 2016-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Pine’s Staff Reorganization

Puts The DiPrete Case In Jeopardy

DeCaporale was assigned to the DiPrete case, but at least one member of the prosecution’s team wasn’t pleased. Ratcliffe felt, that after four years of working on the case, he was being pushed out. This was not Pine’s only move. In a reorganization that surprised most of the 100 member staff, Pine removed James Ryan as head of the criminal division and replaced him with Michael Burns. DeCaporale was promoted to head of Special Prosecutions to replace Burns. In May of 1995, not wanting to deal with the internal office politics, Richard Ratcliffe resigned his position as a prosecutor, one that he had held for seven years. “In retrospect, some members of the Attorney General’s office saw the moment as a critical event in the history of the DiPrete case. Ratcliffe’s resignation, they said, took ‘the detail guy’ out of the equation: the one prosecutor who had been there from the beginning, the person who knew the complex case best.” [167]

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