David Cicilline: the Jewish lawmaker leading Trump impeachment charge
His father defended mobsters Cicilline, born to an Italian father and Jewish mother, grew up in Providence, where his father was a prominent attorney. Jack Ciciline was an aide to Mayor Joseph Doorley Jr., but also helped defend members of the local mafia. “We have a system of justice predicated on certain constitutional rights, which make this country different from every country in the world,” the younger Cicilline told the alumni magazine of his alma mater, Brown University, in 2002. He then defeated a mobster After becoming a lawyer and spending time working for the public defender’...