PROVIDENCE — Two former employees of Rhode Island’s economic development agency have asked a judge to block a settlement tied to the failed $75 million deal with former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video game company, 38 Studios.
They are Keith Stokes, once executive director of the Economic Development Corporation, and J. Michael Saul, who was deputy director.
Antonio Afonso and his law firm agreed to pay $4.4 million; Afonso was bond counsel to the development agency.
Stokes and Saul, Alonso’s codefendants, argue that such individual settlements are unconstitutional.
It would be the first settlement in the lawsuit over 38 Studios, which got a $75 million state loan guarantee. It declared bankruptcy in 2012, leaving the state on the hook for up to $100 million.