Who says that Google does nothing but taketh away?

In a bit of late-breaking news in a week that's been curiously full of news related to the retirement and investment business – AIG lawsuit and the departure of DOL chief Hilda Solis included – we see that the all-knowing and all-powerful Google has, in a strange turn of fate, helped a couple of Rhode Island communities solve their pension problems.

As an odd but certainly welcome reward for their own work in a federal probe into the super-massive Google's role in distributing ads for illegal prescription drug sales, the cities of North Providence and East Providence can use the money to shore up their pension plans, which were as upsidedown as could be.