Langevin Entanglement in Criminal Trial Highlights Failure to Return Tainted Contributions

”It’s time for Jim Langevin to come clean about his record, and his contributions,” says Lawless.

WARWICK, RI – Jennifer Lawless, candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island’s 2nd congressional district, renewed her call for Representative James Langevin to return the nearly $6,000 his campaign has received from the three individuals indicted last week in the Roger Williams Medical Center corruption scandal. Langevin was named today as a potential witness in the trial.

“The real Jim Langevin is starting to look a lot different than the one we see in his campaign ads,” said Lawless. “From his shady donors, to the war in Iraq, to a woman’s right to choose, to the right to privacy, we’re not seeing him being straight with Rhode Island families.”

Today, WJAR NBC 10 reported that U.S. Representative James Langevin is included in a list of potential witnesses in the corruption case of former Roger Williams Hospital CEO Robert Urciuoli. In an August 21st story appearing in the Providence Journal, Langevin’s spokeswoman, Joy Fox, noted that Urciuoli, Sangermano, and Driscoll were not under indictment when they contributed to Langevin, but she failed to explain the connection between the indicted individuals and Representative Langevin.

Representative Langevin accepted $750 from Robert Urciuoli, President of Roger Williams Medical Center; $2,500 from Frances P. Driscoll, former Vice-President of Roger Williams Medical Center; and $2,375 from Peter J. Sangermano Jr., former President of The Village at Elmhurst, an assisted living center owned by Roger Williams Medical Center.

“Jim Langevin ought to tell us why he’s refusing to return the contributions of these three individuals indicted for federal crimes,” said Adam Deitch, Lawless’ campaign manager. “And he ought to tell us who he’s really representing in Washington. ”

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