For someone looking to extort marijuana vendors vying for prime business opportunities, becoming a mayor in Massachusetts could be the thing to do.
Absolute power over the local marijuana market, prosecutors now allege, presented itself as a possible cash cow to Jasiel Correia II, who was the youngest person to win the mayorship in the city of Fall River s history.
Correia is charged with 24 federal crimes that include alleged extortion of more than $600,000 from marijuana vendors seeking to set up shop in Fall River between 2016 and 2018 a pay-to-play scheme.
Correia alone possessed the power to issue non-opposition letters and sign host community agreements based upon locally established processes for granting approval to marijuana companies, as state law allows. Non-opposition letters pave the way for a marijuana business to locate in a particular town or city, while host community agreements are required between the business and municipality prior to state licensi
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LEE â Critics and proponents of the town s proposed second retail recreational marijuana store get to have their say early next month.
The Lee Select Board on May 4 will hear the pros and cons of Forest Wilde LLC s special permit application to manufacture cannabis products and sell them at an outlet on Route 20.
The public hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. and will be a Zoom meeting. The online link to the meeting will be posted on the town s website, www.lee.ma.us.; to find it, click on public meetings/notices.
The permit is for the property that now houses the Cork N Hearth restaurant on Route 20, on the shore of Laurel Lake. The long-established eatery, sandwiched between the Lenox town beach and Lakehouse Inn, remains open for dine-in and take-out dinners Wednesday through Saturday, according to its website.
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