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RI Supreme Court upholds pension benefits for innocent spouse of convicted URI teller PROVIDENCE The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a ruling awarding pension benefits to the innocent spouse of a former University of Rhode Island teller convicted of embezzling tuition money. The court, however, overturned a requirement that a portion of the payments go toward paying her husband s restitution obligations. The ruling, written by Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg, overturned, in part, a 2016 decision by Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Lanphear awarding pension benefits to Diane Randall, the wife of longtime state employee Fred L. Randall, who admitted to embezzling $200,000 in tuition payments from URI from 2004 until 2011 to fuel his gambling addiction. ....