Investigative Reporter & Managing Editor
The untold story of Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio — the last mob boss to lead New England’s most notorious crime family. For decades, the Patriarca Crime Family ran a shadow government from Federal Hill, wielding power that rivaled public officials, financiers, and law enforcement.
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Tim White is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning investigative reporter and managing editor at WPRI 12 in Providence, Rhode Island. Since joining the Target 12 investigative team in 2006, he has built a reputation for holding the powerful accountable — from government waste and police misconduct to pension fraud and public corruption.
Tim is also the executive producer and host of Newsmakers, WPRI 12's long-running weekly current affairs program, and has moderated numerous live candidate debates across Rhode Island.
Prior to WPRI, Tim served as managing editor at WBZ-TV in Boston, where he ran the station's political unit and earned multiple Associated Press and National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
A graduate of UMass Amherst, Tim also holds a Master of Law degree from Roger Williams University School of Law. He serves as an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University and was a longtime board member of the New England First Amendment Coalition.
Tim is the executive producer and host of Newsmakers, WPRI 12's long-running weekly current affairs program. Each week, the show features in-depth interviews with Rhode Island's top newsmakers — from elected officials and policy leaders to community voices driving the conversation.
Tim has also moderated many of the state's highest-profile live candidate debates, earning recognition from The Washington Post as one of Rhode Island's top political reporters.
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Tim is the co-author of The Last Good Heist, which chronicles one of the most daring and audacious robberies in American history — a brazen heist that looted millions from a secret vault tied to organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island.
The book weaves together crime, corruption, and the colorful underworld of 1970s New England in a story that reads like fiction but is entirely true.
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