PROVIDENCE In 2019, the private company staffing the state-subsidized Rhode Island Convention Center and the Dunkin Donuts Center paid $11.8 million to 858 people, including five who share the last name of the Laborers International Union general secretary-treasurer Armand E. Sabitoni.
The list includes Kathleen Masino, the wife of Sabitoni s second in command, LIUNA Vice President and Assistant New England Regional Manager Vincent R. Masino, as the $111,855-a-year director of food and beverage operations.
In fact, the first-ever release of the payroll of this quasi-public arm of state government is a who s who of sons, nephews, in-laws and others who share the family names of key players in the labor movement, past and present:
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PROVIDENCE Inside Franklin Rogers Ltd. Gentlemen s Clothiers, owner Roger Gross is surrounded by suits traditional dark blue, pinstripe, tweed.
When he looks out the store s big shop window onto Westminster Street, however, Gross often has to wait, wait and wait a little longer before the first person wearing a business suit walks by. A more casual approach toward workplace fashion is only part of the issue. Offices are closed, Gross said from the store on a sunny Friday afternoon. We really feel it on weekdays. We are seeing stronger weddings and weekends, but our weekly clientele on weekdays are not here.
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PROVIDENCE Attorney General Peter Neronha has opened the door to the release of long-withheld information about the $16.9 million-plus in taxpayer dollars spent in 2019 on staffing events at the Rhode Island Convention Center, the Dunkin Donuts Center and affiliated properties.
The ruling came Wednesday in response to a complaint filed by The Journal against the heavily taxpayer-subsidized Rhode Island Convention Center Authority a year ago, before COVID-19 turned the venues into a makeshift hospital and then a vaccination site. We find that the authority itself did not violate the APRA . by not producing records it does not maintain, Special Assistant Attorney General Kayla O Rourke wrote on behalf of the office.