From Projo.com:

If you’re a candidate for governor, you want to be as far away as possible from the scandal unfolding around Central Falls Mayor Charles D. Moreau. (Farther than Westerly even.)

But Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, a Democrat running for governor, is a longtime friend of Moreau’s, and Moreau’s spokeswoman is Lynch’s girlfriend and former legislative director, Cynthia Stern.

While we’re all entitled to have friends, that seems too close for comfort for a candidate in an election year.

If you haven’t been tuning in, state police detectives are scrutinizing lucrative work that Moreau gave to his friend and campaign contributor, Michael G. Bouthillette, to board up or clean up some 200 abandoned or foreclosed buildings, at a cost of about $2 million. “We went in on the boarded-up houses, but the investigation has gone beyond that,” the state police superintendent told The Journal’s Mike Stanton and W. Zachary Malinowski. “We’ll be there for quite some time.”

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