Former Mayor of Providence, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci has been released from the Halfway house in Boston he was in after leaving Prison and is now heading back to Rhode Island.
Who is Vincent Cianci? You may ask unless you are from New England you may never of heard of him.

"Vincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. (born April 30, 1941 on Laurel Hill Avenue in Cranston, Rhode Island) served as the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2002. His political career ended with a racketeering conviction in May 2002. He is the longest-serving mayor of Providence.

Cianci resigned from office for the first time in 1984 after pleading no contest to assaulting a man with a lit cigarette, an ashtray and a fireplace log. Cianci claimed that the man had been having an affair with his wife, though both the man and Cianci's then wife said nothing had happened. Cianci spent the next few years as a radio talk show host on Providence AM station 920 WHJJ and as a television commentator. In 1990 he successfully mounted a re-election campaign with the slogan, "He never stopped caring about Providence."

Cianci was indicted in April 2001 on federal criminal charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, witness tampering, and mail fraud. "

What "Buddy" did was not right or legal, but the man put Providence on the map. When I was a little girl we never went to Providence it wasn't safe and not much to do. He changed all of that, he opened up rivers, started an art district an built up the downtown, with Theatre's, restaurants, shopping etc. The Providene you see now is so different from when I grew up. Some people in Rhode Island have always appreciated all that Mayor Cianci did for them inspite of his little illegal doings it was for the benefit of making Providence better wasn't it?

He is out now I wonder how long before he decides to run again, and my bet is that he would win all over again.