Jim Taricani
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Jim Taricani is a US-based reporter, who served a sentence of six months of home confinement for refusing a court order to divulge a source.
Taricani, an investigative reporter for WJAR
television, an NBC
affiliate in Cranston, Rhode Island
, refused to reveal who leaked a surveillance tape to him. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court on November 18, 2004, and sentenced on December 9 2004 to six months of home confinement.
The tape was used during a municipal corruption probe of then-Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr known as Operation Plunder Dome
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Taricani, an investigative reporter for WJAR
WJAR
WJAR is the NBC-affiliated television station for the state of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts licensed to Providence. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 51 from a transmitter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts...
television, an NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate in Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. With a population of 80,387 at the 2010 census, it is the third largest city in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston...
, refused to reveal who leaked a surveillance tape to him. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court on November 18, 2004, and sentenced on December 9 2004 to six months of home confinement.
The tape was used during a municipal corruption probe of then-Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr known as Operation Plunder Dome
Operation Plunder Dome
Operation Plunder Dome was the codename of an undercover investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation into corruption within the government of the City of Providence, Rhode Island....
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