January 05, 2022
A convicted former Massachusetts mayor won't have to start his six-year prison term as scheduled next week while the court system and prison bureau wrestle with a "resurgence" in virus cases, a Boston federal judge said Wednesday.
December 09, 2021
A former mayoral aide whose corruption trial was slated to begin in Massachusetts federal court Thursday won't go before a jury until March after a witness tested positive for COVID-19.
November 24, 2021
A former Massachusetts mayor convicted on fraud and corruption charges can delay his six-year prison sentence, a Boston federal judge ruled Wednesday, granting the disgraced politician's request for more time to help family over the holidays and assist his attorneys on his appeals.
November 18, 2021
Federal prosecutors said Thursday it's time for a convicted Massachusetts mayor to start serving prison time for his years of fraud, urging a judge to deny the 30-year-old former politician's request to delay the sentence so he can help his family's restaurant sling $100 steaks to holiday patrons.
November 17, 2021
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their appeal of a trimmed guilty verdict for a former Massachusetts mayor who was convicted on corruption and fraud charges for allegedly shaking down cannabis businesses and fleecing investors in his smartphone app.
November 08, 2021
Prosecutors plan to appeal a Massachusetts federal judge's decision tossing part of a former mayor's conviction on corruption and tax fraud charges, according to a Monday filing.
October 13, 2021
Former Fall River, Massachusetts, mayor Jasiel Correia has asked to delay the start of a six-year prison sentence until his appeal of fraud and corruption convictions is resolved.
October 06, 2021
A former aide to a Massachusetts mayor who admitted helping the politician extort marijuana businesses has asked a federal judge to consider him a victim of his ex-boss's earlier investment scheme, seeking $50,000 in restitution.
September 29, 2021
A Boston federal judge has ordered a convicted former Massachusetts mayor to shell out $566,740 he illegally obtained by lying to investors in his smartphone app startup company and by extracting bribes from businesses seeking to open marijuana dispensaries in Fall River.
September 21, 2021
The former mayor of a Massachusetts city was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for what a federal judge called the "corrosive'' public-corruption crime of forcing marijuana businesses to pay bribes in order to open.