Arlene Violet was born on 1943 and is an American politician.
11 Facts About Arlene Violet
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Arlene Violet was the first female Attorney General elected in the United States.
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Arlene Violet later earned a bachelor's degree from Salve Regina University and was a school teacher in a disadvantaged neighborhood in the early 1970s.
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Shortly after taking office in 1984 Arlene Violet learned that the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation, a government chartered but private insurance fund meant to protect the state banking system, was "woefully underfunded" with only $25 million in reserves.
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Arlene Violet found that RISDIC was making loans to politically connected people without any personal guarantees.
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Arlene Violet pushed for legislation to require Rhode Island banks to be federally insured, but this was voted down.
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Arlene Violet won recognition for reopening the Von Bulow case.
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Arlene Violet lost her reelection bid in 1986 and her term ended.
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Arlene Violet has written two books Convictions: My Journey from the Convent to the Courtroom, an autobiography, and The Mob and Me a book about the witness protection program.
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Arlene Violet was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Arlene Violet wrote a musical, The Family, A Musical Drama About the Mob, with composer and lyricist, Enrico Garzilli, which premiered by special arrangement with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI in June 2011.