The Legal Joust Over Opening 38 Studios Grand Jury Documents

The latest twist in the never-ending 38 Studios soap opera is the joust over grand jury secrecy. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay says this spat is more about politics than legal precedent.

It’s been almost seven years since Republican Gov. Donald Carcieri and General Assembly Democrats, led by disgraced House Speaker Gordon Fox, rammed the $75 million deal through the Statehouse. As usual, one lesson of this is that nothing good happens after midnight at McKim, Mead & White’s capitol.

After this wee hours deal was approved, it quickly unraveled. Shortly after burning through all the state money, retired Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling’s adolescent dream of running a video game company went bankrupt.

The finger-pointing and blame game surged into high gear. It hasn’t let up since. The tortuous drip of documents from the state’s successful lawsuits to recover money from the lawyers and financial advisers who collaborated in the deal blanketed Rhode Islanders in a blizzard of cynicism.

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