Providence bar at center of Fox bribery scandal sold

By The Associated Press

news@abc6.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ A Providence bar that allegedly bribed former Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox in order to get a liquor license has been sold.           

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday approved the sale of the Shark Sushi Bar & Grill for $300,000 to an investor group.             

Stephen Del Sesto, the bar’s court-appointed receiver, says the sale is contingent upon the new owners getting a new liquor license.            

Prosecutors say the bar paid Fox $52,500 in 2008 for help obtaining a license. Fox was the vice chairman of the board at the time.            

The bar’s owners filed a petition in March to place the business in receivership after the city’s Board of Licenses moved to vacate the bar’s licenses.        

Fox is serving a three-year prison sentence for bribery, wire fraud and filing a false tax return.

© The Associated Press/WLNE-TV 2015