State v. Fiorenzano

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

Found “false and perfidious” 1 after a jury-waived trial before a Superior Court justice, the defendant, Prank Fiorenzano, a former state representative and disbarred attorney, appeals from a judgment convicting him of obtaining money by false pretenses. He claims the trial justice committed reversible error in ruling that G.L.1956 § 11411-4 (the obtaining-money-or-property-by-false-pretenses-or-personation statute) did not require proof that the defendant intended to convert or misappropriate the victim’s funds or to deprive the victim of his or her money…