By W. Zachary Malinowski
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- William L'Europa, the business partner of a prominent former state legislator, was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to cheating the government out of $500,000 in taxes.
Providence Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
William L'Europa, center, enters federal court accompanied by attorney Scott Lutes, right, Wednesday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- William L'Europa, the business partner of a prominent former state legislator, was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to cheating the government out of $500,000 in taxes.
L'Europa, 47, of Cranston, got the same sentence that ex-State Rep. John J. McCauley Jr. received last month, just a few days before Christmas. They admitted that they underreported business receipts from 2007 to 2010 by nearly $1.8 million.
Together, they ran McCauley and L'Europa Public Insurance Adjusters LLC and PIA Restoration LLC, at 27 Hawkins St., in the North End of Providence.
McCauley, 54, who represented Smith Hill for more than two decades, moved to a Cranston house that was built last year.
L'Europa will report to prison on Feb. 28; McCauley Tuesday.