FALL RIVER Cliff Ponte is a busy guy.
He runs a local real estate group, is president of the Fall River City Council and is about to open a sandwich and coffee shop in the city.
But during the past week and a half Ponte has managed, via Zoom, to tune into portions of the federal corruption trial in Boston of former Fall River mayor Jasiel F. Correia II.
“I do it in between phone calls and meetings,” he said.
“I multitask,” Ponte said. “I turn the volume up and down to listen.”
The District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged Correia, who at age 23 in 2015 was voted in as the youngest mayor in city history, with 24 counts that include extortion, wire fraud and filing false tax returns.
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Testimony ends in federal corruption case against former Fall River mayor
By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff,Updated May 6, 2021, 7:40 p.m.
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Former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia is accused of a slew of financial crimes.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Testimony ended Thursday in the federal corruption trial of former Fall River mayor Jasiel F. Correia II after prosecutors presented new
evidence of
The judge instructed jurors that they should
not be influenced by Correiaâs decision not to take the stand in his defense.
âHe doesnât have to say anything,â US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock told jurors,
Jasiel Correia trial: Defense rests after 3 witnesses; IRS agent showed how Andrade paid her former boss Dan Medeiros, Jo C. Goode, Linda Murphy and Lynne Sullivan, The Herald News © Marc Vasconcellos/The Enterprise Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, left, arrives at John Joseph Moakley federal couthouse with his attorney Kevin Reddington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Boston. Correia s trial on twenty four charges of fraud, extortion and corruption is set to begin.
BOSTON The prosecution and defense rested in the 24-count federal fraud, extortion and bribery case of Jasiel Correia II on Thursday. Now the fate of the former Fall River mayor will be in the hands of a 14-member jury on Monday after closing arguments from both sides.
BOSTON The prosecution and defense rested in the 24-count federal fraud, extortion and bribery case of Jasiel Correia II on Thursday. Now the fate of the former Fall River mayor will be in the hands of a 14-member jury on Monday after closing arguments from both sides.
Correia, 29, did not take the stand, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington only called three witnesses.
Jonathan Carreiro, a Swansea technical project manager, said Correia came to him for his expertise to update the SnoOwl app. SnoOwl investors had previously testified that Correia wasn t doing much to develop the app.
Sarah Hartry, deputy general counsel for Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, testified that her office confirmed Correia had no knowledge of the campaign finance violation of Matthew Pichette s wife, Dina. Pichette had testified Wednesday that David Hebert instructed him to pay his bribe by having 25 friends and relatives donate $1,000 each to Correia s campaign.
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