Former state rep. sentenced for fraud

PROVIDENCE – Former state Rep. Leonidis Medina was sentenced to 20 years after being found guilty by a jury of misusing an immigrant’s life insurance settlement. He will serve three years with 17 suspended with probation.
During the trial, the state argued that Leo Medina unlawfully appropriated $28,053.42, the proceeds from a life insurance settlement owed to Alejandro Nico. An undocumented immigrant with no command of the English language or the American legal system, he approached Leo Medina in June 2009 to assist him in collecting the proceeds of his daughter’s life insurance policy, prosecutors said.
Medina referred Nico to an attorney who handled the settlement. The agreement between the defendant and the victim was for Medina to deposit the settlement proceeds into his account for check-cashing purposes only, because Nico did not have a checking account himself. Instead of providing the money to Nico, Medina used the funds for his own purpose.
Nico filed a complaint with the R.I. State Police in June 2011. Medina was found guilty by a jury on June 2, 2014, of unlawfully appropriating the proceeds from a life insurance settlement owed. •

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