The decision is a stunning end to the career of the former mayor, who rose to prominence as an entrepreneur and political outsider. On Sept. 20, he will face sentencing on nine charges of wire fraud related to his app company SnoOwl, four charges of filing false tax returns, and four charges of extortion conspiracy and four charges of extortion regarding a pay-to-play scheme he devised to extract money from potential marijuana vendors.
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Greater Fall River COVID cases are declining but so are vaccinations
FALL RIVER New COVID cases are down for the eighth straight week in Fall River and weekly deaths are at record lows but the pace of vaccination is slowing down.
According to city health officials, 98 more people in Fall River contracted the highly contagious coronavirus in the past week, bringing the city’s total to 14,030 cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. That’s the lowest increase in new cases since mid-October 2020, before the second wave of cases in fall and winter that caused thousands to become ill.