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February 1, 2008

Former solicitor: Oster's campaign ally had office

Lincoln’s former town solicitor thought it was odd that a man who didn’t work for the town should set up an office at Town Hall.

During his testimony today in the bribery and conspiracy trial against former Lincoln Town Administrator Jonathan F. Oster, former Solicitor Mark Krieger said not only did Robert Picerno not have any duties, “I don’t know if Bob Picerno is capable of operating a computer. He was just generally schmoozing around.”

And Krieger said when he asked why Picerno was hanging around in Town Hall, Oster told him: “He helped me on the campaign. He’s helping me on the transition.”

In 2004, Picerno pleaded no contest to four counts of taking or trying to solicit bribes and three counts of conspiracy to solicit bribes.

The prosecution is trying to prove that Picerno and Oster worked together to solicit bribes from two different buyers in exchange for selling them the H&H Screw property at a “rock bottom” price in 2001.

Today is the fourth day of testimony in Oster’s trial in Superior Court Providence.

Read about yesterday's testimony here and here.

Read about Wednesday's testimony here.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer John Hill

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 12:13 PM | Permalink

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