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Stephen Lisauskas is president of Lisauskas & Associates, a consulting firm. He is also an associate at the Collins Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The state of Rhode Island is paying the Collins Center for Lisauskas to advise the state-appointed receiver on the Central Falls bankruptcy.
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