“It’s time that we put this behind us and learn from these mistakes,” Coogan added.
Correia, now 29, was the youngest person to be elected mayor of Fall River in 2015 when he defeated incumbent and former Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, who previously defeated then-mayor Will Flanagan in the state’s first recall election.
He was convicted on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from marijuana vendors in the city, defrauding investors in a purported app business called SnoOwl and filing false tax returns.
Flanagan expected a guilty verdict
Flanagan, a former assistant district attorney who is now a defense attorney, was expecting that Correia would be convicted on most charges.