The membership ranks of the Friends of Mattiello Club have shrunk.
New House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi s emissaries spent the legislature s recess week delivering layoff notices to 18 legislative employees. Another four left before the purge, leaving 224 on the part-time General Assembly s payroll.
The majority of the laid-off employees were former House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello s hires and/or political allies at the State House. Nine of the 22 departing employees came from the defeated former speaker s home city of Cranston.
Aceto was a $67,641 senior analyst/legislative coordinator in the legislature’s year-round Law Revision Office, which is responsible for publishing the state’s laws each year after making sure none of the newest ones wipes out or conflicts with any other law, or contains fixable errors.