Prosecutors say he and former employee Raymour Radhakrishnan paid terminally ill people cash, passing it off as charity, then used their personal information to purchase bonds and annuities that would pay out when the person died.
Two Rhode Island communities will be allowed to use about $70 million forfeited by Google Inc. to fix their police pension shortfalls, funding them almost fully.
Rhode Island's retirement board on Wednesday approved a new set of assumptions that estimates the state's unfunded pension liability is 27 percent higher than previously thought.