Beezlegrunk OP t1_itncj5f wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:23 PM

Since some clown(s) will inevitably respond to this post by deliberately ignoring the substance of the article and just slagging off GoLocalProv in general — as if doing so were more important than the facts of the case itself — I will pre-empt the time-honored RI tradition of “killing the messenger” by noting that it was a federal investigation; GLP is just reporting on it. They are not the source of the story, the U.S. Attorney for RI is. You may not like GLP, but that doesn’t invalidate the story itself.

[EDIT — And we have a winner: https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/ycocod/610_contamination_barletta_to_pay_15_million_in/itpnr4d/]

degggendorf t1_itpnr4d wrote on October 25, 2022 at 12:05 PM

> They are not the source of the story

Except the first line is:

> Twenty-six months after GoLocalProv exclusively uncovered the dumping of contaminated soil in the Olneyville section of Providence

If there are more reputable outlets reporting on the same story, why not use one that doesn't have the track record of dishonest bias? If there are no other reputable outlets reporting on it, then we should probably question why. I'm not seeing any public announcements about this out of the office of Cunha, and I really don't think that the verdict was exclusively shared with GoLocalProv.

edit: ah here we go, a proper source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ri/pr/united-states-resolves-construction-and-procurement-investigation-route-610-project