The address she used: the same Providence office building where Fox's law practice is located and where she closed on the loan.

The FBI wanted to know, among other things, who told her to use the address. Fox said he has not been questioned by the FBI.

Last week former Providence resident Judith Reilly, who we interviewed for the Mollo story, filed a complaint against Fox with the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, saying he did not report five years' worth of legal work for the PEDP on his disclosure form.

This week the Ethics Commission voted to authorize an investigation into Reilly's complaint.

Several PEDP loan recipients complained to The Hummel Report about exorbitant legal fees. In one case a business received a $50,000 loan but had to pay 10 percent outof the proceeds in attorney's fees. Another business backed out after hearing how much those fees would be.

We have asked Fox for a full accounting of how much legal work he did for the city, but so far he has ignored our requests.

The superintendent of the Portsmouth school department - who was reluctant to give up her out-of-state license plates decided over the summer: she'd had enough of Rhode Island.

The chairman of the School Committee billed it as a resignation - but it comes with a price tag for the town's taxpayers, as the district bought Lynn Krizic out of the last year of her contract..

The total tab: $176,782.96

Krizic - who had been at odds with the committee for months - had been granted a 30-day leave of