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Embattled Former Rhode Island Senate Leader Traveled on CVS Private Jet.

By Mike Stanton, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 8--William V. Irons, the embattled former Senate president whose possible ties to CVS have come under state-police scrutiny, took two trips on the pharmacy giant's private jet in recent months -- trips that he has told colleagues he paid for.

In the waning days of his Senate rule, Irons acknowledged to other senators that he had joined his longtime friend Thomas M. Ryan, the chief executive of CVS, on a golf outing to the exclusive Augusta National course in Georgia, and

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