Former Coventry Fire Chief To Pay Back Pension

(Providence, RI)  --  Former Coventry Fire District Chief Paul Labbadia [[ LAB-uh-DEE-uh ]] is avoiding prison time after pleading no contest earlier this year to filing false documents to obtain a public pension. A Rhode Island Superior Court judge sentenced Labbadia to three years of probation on Friday and gave him three years to repay about 200-thousand dollars in fraudulently-obtained retirement benefits. Prosecutors said he expanded the timeframe he worked as a North Providence firefighter when he applied for his pension in 2007. Labbadia was fired from the Coventry department in 2015 for allegedly drinking, smoking marijuana and golfing on the job.


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