PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Providence television station is reporting that a state lawmaker led a nonprofit that shares its name with an official legislative body, but didn’t tell ethics officials about it.
WPRI-TV’s Ted Nesi reports that Rep. Anastasia Williams was listed as president of a private nonprofit she established, the Black and Latino Caucus, in a 2015 filing with the secretary of state.
The General Assembly’s official group for minority lawmakers is the Legislative Black and Latino Caucus, led by Williams.
The Providence Democrat didn’t mention the nonprofit for the fourth consecutive year on her 2015 financial disclosure form to the state ethics commission.
Williams says she thought she had and she’s open to amending it.
Williams previously ran the nonprofit out of the statehouse. She says it’s separate from the legislative caucus.
