Wunderkind ex-mayor to face jurors in fraud, bribery case
The trial - one of the first to be held in Boston’s federal court since the start of the coronavirus pandemic - will showcase Correia’s dramatic rise and fall in the southeastern Massachusetts city of 89,000 that’s still hurting by the collapse of its once-booming textile industry. Prosecutors will try to show that Correia swindled investors just like his critics say he smooth-talked voters into entrusting him with the city. “My husband says it best: He could convince the pope that ther...
Source: washingtontimes.com