Man convicted in the scheme to request donations on behalf of accident victims

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| The Providence Journal

The cranston man does not advocate any contest to obtain money under false claims.
Edward Lima has transformed and did not plead any competition to two charges of crime and received a suspended sentence of one year and a year of probation, said Barrington’s police chief.
Two people who donated to the fund after Lima’s requests were reimbursed, the police said.

A cranston man who works for a fundraising company has not pleaded any charges in what they said that the authorities were a scheme to encourage donations to the Union of Police Officers Barrington, referring to the death of a Mom and son Barrington in a plane accident.

54 -year -old Edward Lima was accused of two charges of obtaining money under false claims under $ 1,500.

Lima worked for a company called TCI America, who contracted at the Police Union for its annual fundraising campaign. The use of a contracted company to raise funds for public safety unions is ordinary, said the police chief, Michael E. Correia, in announcing the arrest of Lima and the result of an investigation.

“At no time, no member of the Barrington Police Union authorized TCI America or any of their employees to use the Lane family to encourage a donation,” Correia said last month.

Figure skater, sixteen years old Spencer Lane And his mother, Christine Conrad Lane, was killed in a collision from Midair at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, outside Washington, DC, on January 29. There were among the 67 people on board a jet of passengers who collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

Lima has transformed and received a suspended sentence of one year and a year of evidence, said Correia.

TCI cooperated fully with the investigation and two people who donated to the fund after Lima’s encouragement were reimbursed, Correia said.