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The truth be told is this. As a Bidder we were exercised.

The reporter who wrote the previous articles had my contact info but did not contact me for this article to asked the pointed questions. I stumbled across this follow up article. "Biggest lies are told in silence". Things people know but do not pass the info along.

As one of the bidders I requested a copy of the proposed bid that the gentleman from MA provided the City of Warwick. The City provided it to me.

The following due diligence of ours was passed on to the City officials and they are well aware of the following facts. That's why I believe they pulled it.

1). We found that that bidder from MA never followed EPA standards in removing asbestos and the lead paint from the two lighthouses he has already worked on in the Bay.

2). That he was not licensed to perform the remediation a in RI or M A.

3). That he is not the principle in the company that submitted the bid that he offered and that he misrepresented himself as being the owner.

4). That the most he was willing to take out of his pocket in total was $55,000 for restoration.

5). That the City of Warwick never placed in the bid that the bidder who operated the lighthouse had to provide transportation to / from the lighthouse for the visitors.

6). That the City of Warwick never took into consideration that in their requirement to allow school kids to visit how would the City address the issues of those who require special assistance climbing up the ladder etc.( physically challenged ).

7). That the bidder from MA submitted fraudulent paperwork which actually illustrated that he received bids for the remediations from the gentleman who was submitting the bid with me.My partner claims a "cut and paste" using my partners letterhead.

I , along with a restoration company who restored many of the lighthouses in the Bay we spent well over 100 hours preparing our bid.

We were both insulted that one of the biggest critics and the councilman who lives steps away from the lighthouse blew us off in a planned meeting and never called to apologize . We are businessman. Time is money.

After receiving our proposals the City followed up by requesting to know about our personnel funding ( I own an Industrial Park, Stone Quarry and Hydro plant.). But yet they did not offer to show us the City's books.

Not living in the City I looked into the Cities books and discovered that the City is upside down big time with their pensions. If like Central Falls the City of Warwick went belly up and filed bankruptcy the person in charge would start liquidating assets to balance the books and who's to say they would not sell off the lighthouse we invested $750,000 into?

The City offered no way for us to secure our investment and that is one if the reasons I retracted my bid.

The other reason is I have a bad taste in my mouth for politics. I had very bad experiences ( CT) with dealing with local governments and the way they conduct business. In Connecticut I am assisting in an investigation in which 4 town officials are expected to be arrested soon by the FBI for RICO violations, Inverse Condemnation as well as Color of Law Violations.

This bid process was not properly thought out and the City needs to sell it off and let the private sector perform the required work before it is destroyed beyond repair. The City does not need the liability.