USA v. O'Donovan
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1:22-cr-10141
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February 14, 2024
Ex-Atty Can't Delay Prison Amid Pot Bribe Appeal, Judge Says
A Boston federal judge on Wednesday shot down a former Massachusetts attorney's request to put off his 24-month prison sentence while appealing his conviction for bribing a local police chief to boost his client's retail cannabis application.
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February 13, 2024
Ex-Atty Appealing Pot Bribe Conviction Says Prison Can Wait
A former Massachusetts attorney convicted over an alleged cannabis licensing quid pro quo told a Boston federal judge Tuesday that multiple close-call legal issues warrant a delay of his 24-month prison sentence until the First Circuit decides his forthcoming appeal.
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February 07, 2024
Mass. Atty Gets 2 Years For 'Corruptly' Pushing Pot Bribe Plot
A former Massachusetts attorney "violated his oath corruptly" by bribing a police chief with payments to his brother to win a local marijuana license for a client, a federal judge said Wednesday as he handed down a two-year prison term.
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February 01, 2024
Atty Reprises Entrapment Claim As Pot Bribe Sentence Looms
A lawyer convicted of bribing a Massachusetts police chief working on local marijuana licensing approvals asked a Boston federal judge Thursday for a sentence of no more than a year and a day in prison, citing his "imperfect entrapment" defense and insisting that the conduct was permissible lobbying.
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November 27, 2023
Sentencing Guidelines Boosted For Atty In Pot Bribe Case
An attorney convicted in a marijuana licensing bribery scheme faces a potentially stiff sentence after a Boston federal judge on Monday rejected the defendant's math, showing he only gained $15,000 from the crime, but stopped short of adopting prosecutors' calculations pegging the gain at $100,000 or more.
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October 27, 2023
Cannabis Atty Convicted In Plot To Bribe Mass. Police Chief
A Boston federal jury on Friday convicted a lawyer of seeking to bribe a police chief working on local marijuana licensing approvals with a $25,000 payment to the official's brother.
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October 25, 2023
FBI Informant Lied To Nab Atty In Pot Bribe Sting, Jury Hears
A key witness for Boston federal prosecutors acknowledged Wednesday that he told a "series of lies" crafted by federal agents that led to charges against a Massachusetts attorney for allegedly offering a bribe to help a marijuana client secure a local retail license.
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October 24, 2023
Atty Offered Cash For 'Edge' In Pot Shop Bid, Jury Hears
Boston federal prosecutors rolled tape Tuesday on secret in-person and telephone recordings at the center of their case against a Massachusetts attorney charged with seeking to bribe a local police chief to give his cannabis client an edge over the competition for scarce local approvals for retail cannabis shops.
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October 23, 2023
Atty Tells Jury Pot Bribe Case Is FBI-Backed 'Shakedown'
Prosecutors manufactured a pot-license bribery case against a Massachusetts lawyer by relying on an informant who engaged in "a pattern of lies and deceit," the lawyer's defense team said at the start of trial Monday.
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October 16, 2023
Atty Wants Entrapment Defense Kept Open In Bribery Trial
A Massachusetts attorney wants a federal judge to nix prosecutors' attempt to lock him into an entrapment defense before his trial over whether he floated a bribery scheme in order to get a client's cannabis shop to market, urging the court to instead decide whether an entrapment instruction is warranted based on the evidence at the trial.