Lawrence Clay (DOB: 12/18/73) today was ordered to serve 30 years for the October 2009 kidnapping of a Middletown girl and reckless driving. Clay was found guilty on October 19, 2010 by a Newport County Superior Court jury in a trial presided over by Judge Melanie Wilk Thunberg.
On the count of...
Abraham Montijo (DOB: 9/9/69), whose was last known to reside in Pawtucket, was ordered to serve seven years for second degree sexual assault and second degree child molestation.
Montijo was found guilty on January 10, 2010, by a Providence County Superior Court jury on one count of second...
As a party to the original Woodmansee case, the Office of the Attorney General sought an order from the Presiding Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court to inspect the contents of the sealed court file, including the Woodmansee journal. Upon review of the contents of the court file and...
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and the Children’s Health Forum (CHF) today announced $850,000 in competitive grant awards to five Rhode Island organizations working in various aspects of lead poisoning prevention in the state. The grants, totaling $850,000 over two years, will fund a variety...
In the largest ever multi-state consumer protection-based pharmaceutical settlement,
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced today that he along with 37 other Attorneys General reached a record $68.5 million dollar settlement with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP arising from...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin formally opposed National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI’s) request for an overall 3.9 percent increase for advisory loss costs for workers’ compensation insurance line of business. After thorough analysis and an independent...
Emanuel Baptista, formerly of Pawtucket, was found guilty today, March 2, 2011, by a Providence County Superior Court jury on two counts of first degree child molestation and two counts of first degree child abuse (P1/09-2502A). The jury’s verdict, reached after four days of deliberations,...
Whether we like it or not, the April 18th deadline, extended from the traditional April 15th deadline, to file our income tax returns is right around the corner, and during these difficult economic times tax season can be very stressful. Attorney General Kilmartin wants to make sure taxpayers aren
Today, Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin joined 14 other states in submitting comments on the December 2010 staff report issued by the Federal Trade Commission entitled, “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers.” The FTC’...
Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today announced that Superior Court Justice Edwin J. Gale sentenced Brian Verry, DOB 5/3/76, to 20 years with 15 to serve for the 2006 child abuse of his daughter, who was 55-days old at the time of the incident. Verry was found guilty by a jury on January 14,...
