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May 9, 2007

Ex-Lincoln Park exec Potter to be jailed in England

PROVIDENCE -- A British gambling executive convicted in a bribery plot is being transferred to England to serve the remainder of his prison sentence, his lawyer says.

Nigel Potter was the chief executive of Wembley PLC, which had been the British parent company of the Lincoln Park gambling facility in Lincoln.

Potter and the park's former general manager, Daniel Bucci, were convicted in August 2005 of conspiring to pay up to $4 million to the then-Rhode Island House Speaker, John Harwood.

Potter began serving a three-year prison sentence in November 2005. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused last year to overturn the verdict or grant him a new trial.

Potter is being returned to England under an international treaty that permits prisoners who were convicted in a foreign nation to apply for a return to their home countries, defense lawyer C. Leonard O'Brien said yesterday.

Potter has been moved from a Pennsylvania prison to the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City and could be transferred to England within weeks, O'Brien said.

-- Associated Press

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