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Answers to your questions:
Q. What condition would Warwick be in, if Avedisian was still Mayor?
A. The same, the damage has been done and will not be undone soon.
Q. What did anyone do to stop Avedisian?
A. People like Rob Cote, Bob Cushman, Roger Durand, spent lots of money on public records access, spent enormous amounts of time doing analysis, brought the findings to the council for several years, got the media involved, and eventually brought theses issues to the level where Avedisian had no other choice but to run and hide.
Q. Should Avedisian and some of his inner circle be criminally prosecuted?
A. Yes. Under the following laws:
§ 11-1-6 Conspiracy. – Except as otherwise provided by law, every person who shall conspire with another to commit an offense punishable under the laws of this state shall be subject to the same fine and imprisonment as pertain to the offense which the person shall have conspired to commit, provided that imprisonment for the conspiracy shall not exceed ten (10) years.
§ 11-41-4. Obtaining property by false pretenses or personation.
Every person who shall obtain from another designedly, by any false pretense or pretenses, any money, goods, wares, or other property, with intent to cheat or defraud, and every person who shall personate another or who shall falsely represent himself or herself to be the agent or servant of another and shall receive any money or other property intended to be delivered to the person so personated, or to the alleged principal or master of that agent or servant, shall be deemed guilty of larceny.
TITLE 18 Fraud by wire, radio, or television
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
§ 38-1-10 Disposal of records.
No public official may mutilate, destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of any public record without the consent of the public records administration program of the secretary of state.
§ 38-1-4 Keeping of records in vaults provided – Penalty.
When not in use, the records and documents shall be kept in the fireproof rooms, vaults, or safes provided for them. Whoever unlawfully keeps in his or her possession any public record, or unlawfully removes the record from the room in which it is usually kept, or alters, defaces, mutilates, or destroys any public record, or violates any provision of this section, shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
Just for starters, and there is more, plenty more.
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