BOSTON – Adult entertainment. A personal trainer. A helicopter tour of historic mansions in Newport, Rhode Island.
Those were some of the things a former young Massachusetts mayor bought with money from investors who believed they were supporting the creation of a smartphone app, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday.
That was before 23-year-old Jasiel Correia won the race for Fall River mayor in 2015 and turned his administration into a “government of extortion and bribery,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Zach Hafer said. The fraud and corruption case against Correia kicked off in Boston’s federal court with the prosecutor seeking to portray the now 29-year-old as a con artist who shrewdly stole from investors to bankroll his grand lifestyle