Correia was arrested again on new charges in 2019, alleging he extorted marijuana businesses while serving as mayor of the Massachusetts town, Fall River. He faces a 24-count federal indictment that includes charges of fraud, bribery, and extortion.
It is alleged that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana vendors in return for a “letter of non-opposition,” which is required in Massachusetts to open new marijuana businesses.
Prosecutors are also charging him with soliciting bribes from a building owner seeking permits and making his chief of staff, Genoveva Andrade, pay him half her salary in exchange for her job.
The case is U.S. v. Correia et al., case number 1:18-cr-10364, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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