Buddy, we hardly knew ye

Whoa! Instead of convincing would-be guests it'd be criminal not to stay at the swanky XV Beacon hotel in Boston, two-times-a-felon Buddy Cianci is working out his halfway issues at some condo project in Providence, Channel 10 in Providence reports:

... The job was arranged through former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino, whose property management company is part-owner of the condominium development, the Associated Press reported.

Paolino probably is just following that old adage: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but Amy sees the fingerprints of a jealous Tom Menino all over this:

... Menino had better watch himself. He's going to start getting fireplace logs lobbed though his window at night. ...