Montanaro — Former Top Staffer to Mattiello — Lands Job at RIPTA for $113K

Montanaro — Former Top Staffer to Mattiello — Lands Job at RIPTA for $113K

Former top State House staffer Frank Montanaro has landed a new job at RIPTA as the Executive Director of Facilities and Maintenance.  His salary is $113,100.97.

Under Mattiello, Montanaro served as the head of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services. In that role, he earned $167,948.56 according to state records.

Montanaro was involved in a number of high-profile controversies in his role on Mattiello’s team.

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One controversy centered around Montanaro receiving $50,000 in free tuition.

After much outrage and a State Police investigation, he later agreed to pay portions of those funds back and notified Rhode Island College of his plans to repay $41,083 of the nearly $50,000 in free tuition he received.

In 2019, Montanaro was involved in a controversy between Mattiello and the RI Convention Center Authority. In his role as chair of the JCLS, he pressed for an audit of the Authority after the organization disciplined a close political ally of Mattiello.

Those events ended up before a statewide grand jury.