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Campaign for Justice
Lawyers Bevilacqua,
Cicilline indicted for
conspiracy
01:45 PM EST on Friday, January 5, 2007
By MIKE STANTON
Journal Staff Writer
Former law partners Joseph A. Bevilacqua Jr. and John M. Cicilline,
the brother of Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, have been
indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and
making false statements.
The indictment <http://www.projo.com/news/2007/0105_bevcictorres.
pdf >, unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Boston, charges
Bevilacqua and Cicilline with leading a conspiracy in which they took
at least $150,000 from clients accused of drug dealing to help them
gain a more lenient sentence.
Bevilacqua, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to charges of leaking an FBI
videotape to Rhode Island television reporter Jim Taricani, had been
completing his prison term in a Massachusetts halfway house.
Bevilacqua is the son of former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief
Justice Joseph A. Bevilacqua, and the brother of former Senate
Majority Leader John Bevilacqua.
Also charged is Juan Giraldo, who worked as an interpreter for
Bevilacqua and Cicilline, and Lisa Torres, a paralegal interpreter, who
is also accused of assisting the lawyers in the scheme. Giraldo is
serving a federal prison term for cocaine trafficking.
Bevilacqua and Cicilline surrendered to authorities in Boston this
morning, according to Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman for the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. They are expected to appear in
federal court in Boston this afternoon. Giraldo, who is already in
prison, will be summoned at a later date.
The case stems from the 2002 arrest of John Mendonca and his wife,
Jacqueline Mendonca, in Warwick by federal and local authorities.
Agents also seized marijuana and $1.3 million in cash, and the
Mendoncas were subsequently indicted in Boston in 2003 on drug-
trafficking and money-laundering charges. Cicilline and Bevilacqua
became their lawyers.
According to the 21-page indictment, the defendants solicited and
received large sums of money from the Mendoncas, purportedly to
help set up other drug dealers with information that would then be
credited to the Mendoncas to win themselves a lighter sentence.
The indictment charges that the defendants also pressured the
Mendoncas to plead guilty as part of the scheme, and that they lied to
federal authorities who prosecuted the Mendoncas.
Shortly after the couple’s arrest, Bevilacqua allegedly met with John
Mendonca at the Plymouth House of Correction and told him that for a
payment of several hundred thousand dollars, he could ``keep John
Mendonca out of jail.’’
- With reports from staff writer Amanda Milkovits
Cicilline indicted for
conspiracy
01:45 PM EST on Friday, January 5, 2007
By MIKE STANTON
Journal Staff Writer
Former law partners Joseph A. Bevilacqua Jr. and John M. Cicilline,
the brother of Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, have been
indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and
making false statements.
The indictment <http://www.projo.com/news/2007/0105_bevcictorres.
pdf >, unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Boston, charges
Bevilacqua and Cicilline with leading a conspiracy in which they took
at least $150,000 from clients accused of drug dealing to help them
gain a more lenient sentence.
Bevilacqua, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to charges of leaking an FBI
videotape to Rhode Island television reporter Jim Taricani, had been
completing his prison term in a Massachusetts halfway house.
Bevilacqua is the son of former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief
Justice Joseph A. Bevilacqua, and the brother of former Senate
Majority Leader John Bevilacqua.
Also charged is Juan Giraldo, who worked as an interpreter for
Bevilacqua and Cicilline, and Lisa Torres, a paralegal interpreter, who
is also accused of assisting the lawyers in the scheme. Giraldo is
serving a federal prison term for cocaine trafficking.
Bevilacqua and Cicilline surrendered to authorities in Boston this
morning, according to Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman for the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. They are expected to appear in
federal court in Boston this afternoon. Giraldo, who is already in
prison, will be summoned at a later date.
The case stems from the 2002 arrest of John Mendonca and his wife,
Jacqueline Mendonca, in Warwick by federal and local authorities.
Agents also seized marijuana and $1.3 million in cash, and the
Mendoncas were subsequently indicted in Boston in 2003 on drug-
trafficking and money-laundering charges. Cicilline and Bevilacqua
became their lawyers.
According to the 21-page indictment, the defendants solicited and
received large sums of money from the Mendoncas, purportedly to
help set up other drug dealers with information that would then be
credited to the Mendoncas to win themselves a lighter sentence.
The indictment charges that the defendants also pressured the
Mendoncas to plead guilty as part of the scheme, and that they lied to
federal authorities who prosecuted the Mendoncas.
Shortly after the couple’s arrest, Bevilacqua allegedly met with John
Mendonca at the Plymouth House of Correction and told him that for a
payment of several hundred thousand dollars, he could ``keep John
Mendonca out of jail.’’
- With reports from staff writer Amanda Milkovits
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