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Former city official, Hildegar Camara, received a sentencing date Wednesday for his role in the extortion of marijuana vendors.

BOSTON — "If I'm doing something wrong, come and get me." Jasiel Correia II issued that challenge in a documentary chronicling his rise to power as mayor of Fall River. And the federal government did just that. A jury of Correia's peers, after four days of deliberations, found him guilty Friday of 21 of 24 federal counts of wire fraud, tax fraud, extortion and extortion conspiracy.  Correia rose to power in Fall River as a self-styled entrepreneur who could run city government like a business, selling voters overinflated claims of success. But in his business, he scammed investors out of...

The verdict with regard to each count is as follows: Count A: Wire Fraud.  Processing Dr. David Cabeceiras’ $6,000 check to SnoOwl. — GUILTY   Count B: Wire Fraud. Email Correia to Mark Eisenberg with business plan. — GUILTY   Count C: Wire Fraud. Email Correia to Eisenberg with equity stake agreement. — GUILTY   Count D: Wire Fraud.  Processing Eisenberg’s $25,000 investment check. — GUILTY  Count E: Wire Fraud. Processing Victor Martinez’s $25,000 investment check. — GUILTY   Count F: Wire Fraud. Email from Correia to Martinez regarding signed investor agreement. ...

“It’s time that we put this behind us and learn from these mistakes,” Coogan added. Correia, now 29, was the youngest person to be elected mayor of Fall River in 2015 when he defeated incumbent and former Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, who previously defeated then-mayor Will Flanagan in the state’s first recall election. He was convicted on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from marijuana vendors in the city, defrauding investors in a purported app business called SnoOwl and filing false tax returns. Flanagan expected a guilty verdict  Flan...