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FBI agents raid a building in Providence; Central Falls judge resigns. What we know.
providencejournal.com ^ | January 23, 2025 | Katie Mulvaney

Posted on 01/23/2025 4:03:13 PM PST by lowbridge

FBI agents raided a building on Dorrance Street in downtown Providence on Thursday morning.

"There is court authorized activity at that location," said Jim Martin, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha's office. He declined to elaborate.

The 127 Dorrance St. building houses the offices of Joseph Molina Flynn, an immigration lawyer in Massachusetts and Rhode Island who serves as a municipal court judge in Central Falls. Molina Flynn's office is the focus of the search, according to multiple sources.

Molina Flynn was the first openly gay person and the first formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls, according to the city. 

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed only that the agency "is conducting court authorized activity at that address."

Shortly after news of the FBI's actions broke, Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera announced Molina Flynn's resignation.

"I was deeply concerned to see the reports of an FBI search at the law office of Joseph Molina Flynn," Rivera said in a statement. "As the Central Falls community knows, transparency and accountability are priorities of mine. In an effortto uphold the integrity and focus of the Municipal Court, Judge Molina Flynn has officially resigned his position."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
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1 posted on 01/23/2025 4:03:13 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Molina Flynn was the first openly gay person and the first formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls

"So I pull out two laminated Get Out of Jail Free privilege cards and still you boneheads don't get it? Who handles your bribes? What an amateur outfit."

2 posted on 01/23/2025 4:07:25 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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"...the FIRST formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls"

YAY!! Another leftist "first."

3 posted on 01/23/2025 4:12:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: lowbridge
The 127 Dorrance St. building houses the offices of Joseph Molina Flynn, an immigration lawyer in Massachusetts and Rhode Island who serves as a municipal court judge in Central Falls.

Holy smoke!

4 posted on 01/23/2025 4:15:23 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: lowbridge

I hope he is deported to Haiti.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 4:15:50 PM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: lowbridge
 
 
FBI - that's a heavy response. Gonna go out on a limb and speculate child porn, or something across state lines with a real child.
 
 

6 posted on 01/23/2025 4:16:56 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lowbridge

I refuse to be judged, fined, or incarcerated by an illegal alien. FOR ANYTHING. But if he’s gay, well then that makes it OK.

This beyond reprehensible idiocracy.


7 posted on 01/23/2025 4:18:09 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: lapsus calami

Agree, if this was job related or political no way he resigns abruptly.


8 posted on 01/23/2025 4:20:28 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lowbridge

Let’s see if I have this right: “Nobody is above the law!”


9 posted on 01/23/2025 4:22:27 PM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If this was a deportation raid he probably wouldn’t resign, so something else going on.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 4:22:36 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: lapsus calami

Child trafficking could very well be a possibility.

Someone is doing it. Having a judge on the payroll is ideal for traffickers.


11 posted on 01/23/2025 4:27:19 PM PST by OldHarbor
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To: lowbridge

Well…..we know the fbi is corrupt


12 posted on 01/23/2025 4:29:16 PM PST by wny
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To: lowbridge

“Molina Flynn was the first openly gay person and the first formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls, according to the city. “

Ugh... has there been more than one “formerly” undocumented judge in Central Falls?


13 posted on 01/23/2025 4:30:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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Mayor Maria Rivera

Are [white] men even allowed to run for mayor anymore. Or police chief, or fire dept chief, or DA?

14 posted on 01/23/2025 4:33:13 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: lowbridge

A previous Mayor, Mayor James Diossa, of Central Falls, RI, signed up his city to accept loads of Syrian refugees.


15 posted on 01/23/2025 4:34:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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See this - includes James Diossa, Mayor of Central Falls, RI:

Mayors Of Eighteen U.S. Cities Tell Obama They Are Ready To Take More Syrian Refugees
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/24/15 | Kerry Picket
Posted on 9/26/2015, 9:08:54 AM by Enlightened1

Mayors from eighteen U.S. cities signed a letter to President Obama saying they are willing to take even more refugees than what has been proposed by the administration.

“We will welcome the Syrian families to make homes and new lives in our cities,” wrote the mayors, all of whom are part of the Cities United for Immigration Action coalition.


16 posted on 01/23/2025 4:36:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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Maybe the feds paid their debt in exchange for housing Syrians:

“As you may remember, Central Falls’s financial woes are primarily the result of the city’s $80 million unfunded pension liability....”

May or may not have anything to do with this wierdo’s case.


17 posted on 01/23/2025 4:40:03 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: lowbridge
"Molina Flynn was the first openly gay person and the first formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls"

Probably resigned in order to file as the first candidate for the democrat presidential race in 2028.

18 posted on 01/23/2025 4:58:58 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: lowbridge
Molina Flynn was the first openly gay person and the first formerly undocumented person to serve on the bench in Central Falls, according to the city.

An undocumented person? What species is she, really?

19 posted on 01/23/2025 5:20:07 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The Mayor and the Police Chief of Portland, OREGON are White Men.


20 posted on 01/23/2025 5:28:40 PM PST by nwrep
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