Buff Chace News Today

Superior Court Judge Brian P. Stern refuses to dismiss some key elements of a lawsuit accusing downtown Providence developer Arnold B. “Buff” Chace Jr. of self-dealing from a family trust.

In what is expected to be one of the biggest legal brawls in Rhode Island history, is now headed for trial.

Smiley said the current law has “potential for abuse or misapplication."

2023 was a complex year. There were significant accomplishments, game-changing developments, and some major blunders.

Providence developer Arnold “Buff” Chace has been in the eye of the storm — actually, two legal storms — in 2023.

Cliff Wood, former Providence City Councilman, has left his position as the executive director of the Providence Foundation.

The ongoing battle between millionaire members of the Chace family is scheduled to play out on Thursday in Providence Superior Court.

Lawyers exchange charges of “self-dealing” and “personal animus” in a pair of lawsuits involving the wealth left behind by Malcolm G. “Kim” Chace III, who served on the Berkshire Hathaway board.

Aaron Regunberg has left-wing endorsements; Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos, more centrist ones. But Matos is fending off a series of scandals.

The council's attorneys filed a motion to intervene in an old lawsuit from which the tax breaks emerged.