council, Rizzo resigned as Chairman and voted against the proposal followed by councillor Nunziata, Frances Nunziata to oppose the project. In the end aldermen Jim Fera and Tony Mandarano were convicted for receiving bribes from the developer. Rizzo was questioned by the police but not charged. In 1997 he sought a return to municipal politics. He ran in the newly formed Ward 28 (York Eglinton) but lost to Joe Mihevc and Rob Davis. In 2000, he ran against Howard Moscoe in Ward 15. He accused Moscoe of interfering in a recent Toronto Transit Commission strike and of collusion with the taxicab industry. He lost the election by 3,627 votes. Provincial He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1990, defeating Liberal incumbent Chaviva Hošek by 2,280 votes in the Toronto riding of Oakwood. The NDP won a majority government in this election under the leadership of Bob Rae. In his old riding, York council appointed Reverend Paul Owen to replace Rizzo as an interim alderman. Rob Davis won the seat in a municipal election a year later. On October 5, 1990, it was revealed that Rizzo had obtained home renovation drawings from architect Rocco Maragna in 1987. Later on Rizzo had voted at council to approve city contracts for Maragna's architectural firm. Rizzo admitted that he hadn't declared a conflict of interest because he didn't pay for the drawings. He said, "When I asked for an invoice, he refused to give it to me. I should have insisted. To repay him, I took him for lunch. I should have insisted on an invoice. Maybe it would cost me less." Rizzo wrote in a press release that "In hindsight, I see that what then seemed a small thing was an error in judgment." Premier Bob Rae took issue with Rizzo's response, however he didn't expel him. "It doesn't make it any easier, but bad things happen," Rae said. "The test, it seems to me, is how you respond to those things. Human beings are human beings. They make mistakes." On October 19, 1990, a further impropriety surfaced. In 1989 the Ontario Labour Relations Board found that Rizzo had shifted a dozen workers from one company to a new one ( Muro Construction Ltd ) following the residential construction industry crisis in order to save their job and keep them working in spite of higher wages as result