Cianci funeral held Monday

PROVIDENCE – The funeral for former Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. was held Monday.
Cianci died Jan. 28 at age 74.
Cianci’s casket was carried out of City Hall Monday morning, and a horse-drawn carriage brought Cianci’s remains to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, where a funeral Mass was to be held around 10 a.m., according to WPRI-TV CBS 12.
Cianci, a politician renowned as both the “Prince of Providence” and a convicted felon, was first elected mayor of Providence in 1974 as a Republican, at the age of 33, winning re-election in 1978 and 1982, 1990, 1994 and 1998. He sought the top job as an Independent again in June 2014, following nearly five years in prison on a racketeering conviction, but lost to Mayor Jorge O. Elorza.
“He never stopped caring about the city of Providence,” former mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr. said in an interview with PBN last month about Cianci.

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