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Companies Linked with Immigration Raids Have Dozens of Contracts with State of Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The two companies whose employees were arrested in immigration raids at Rhode Island courthouses this week have at least 45 other janitorial contracts with the state.

The administration of Governor Carcieri says they include the main state office building on Smith Hill, the attorney general’s office, two Division of Motor Vehicle offices, the Board of Elections and state’s command readiness facility.

The companies are TriState Enterprises based in North Providence; and Falcon Maintenance Co. LLC of Johnston.

TriState has, or has had, at least 27 state contracts, and Falcon at least 18.

Federal immigration officials arrested 31 people in the Tuesday raids on suspicion of being illegal immigrants. They are from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Brazil.
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Dozens of FAT state contracts = many Fat Cat friends in high places

The envelope please

Here's a much more revealing article

TriState, Falcon have over 45 contracts with R.I.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/IMMIG ... caf47.html
This is not the first time Tri-State Enterprises and its co-owner — Anthony DeSimone — have been in the news.

One brother is state Rep. John DeSimone, the Providence Democrat who waged an unsuccessful bid for House Speaker in 2004. Their father practiced law with the late Joseph A. Bevilacqua, a former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Another brother was former Senate Majority Leader John Bevilacqua’s legal counsel at the State House.

A year ago, TriState figured in a Department of Business Regulation report about the extent to which former executives at Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. played politics in an attempt to “buy votesâ€