Question. Did he kick you? Answer. Yes. Question. Where did he kick you?

Answer on my right chin. Question. Did he try to burn you with a cigarette? Answer. Yes.

Question. Did you have a cigarette burn on your face after the incident? Answer. Yes. In my left eye.

Question. At some point did the mayor swing a fireplace log at you? Answer. Yes. This is a transcript of

grand jury testimony from a victim of a brutal assault, an assault committed by the mayor of

Providence, Rhode Island. Yeah, that's right. The mayor. A mayor in his ninth year in office. A

mayor named Vincent Buddy, Cianci. Good evening, a statewide grand jury has invited Providence mayor

Vincent Cianci on charges, including extortion, kidnapping, and assault. The mayor of a major American

city kidnapping and torturing a guy. Weirder still is what happened next. Buddy ran again and he won.

You know, he was a gentleman. Beside his faults, you know, everybody has faults.

Buddy Cianci died earlier this year. His body was laid out in city hall and people here lined up

to pay their respects. He did so much for this city and we all got to miss him.

There was nothing wrong with what this guy did. I believe that he didn't have problems too much.

So he fell into his hole and you'd be parched to fall into it when you love something too much.

Buddy did love this city in his own way, but his shortcomings went well beyond one little incident

of torture and kidnapping. There were criminal investigations, accusations of corruption, drug

scandals, even a five-year prison sentence. But we'll get to that later. The question now is,

why so much love for such a flawed man? Well, for people here,

buddies' faults weren't all that shocking. Because the thing you got to know about providence,

the city the buddy ruled for more than 20 years, it was a mob town. There was New York,

there was Chicago, and then there was this little city and the smallest state in the union

for third largest cause in Austria and the country. This is Albert Baroducci. He grew up in

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