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The brother of Anthony Harden, who was shot and killed by police, accused DA Thomas Quinn of being "cozy" with police in their quest for answers.

Bernier's involvement in SnoOwl  Bernier’s testimony was critical to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zachary Hafer’s and David Tobin’s case against Correia, who was convicted of 21 out of 24 counts of tax fraud, wire fraud and extortion.  A tax attorney who recently opened a new firm, Rampart Law Group, in the city, was Correia’s former business partner and chief operating officer in the app company SnoOwl.  The app company, founded by Correia after he left college, was the source of 14 of the counts against Correia, who was accused and convicted of bilking investors out of more than $2...

Sam Sutter as 'Boss Hogg' Defense attorney Kevin Reddington used a few pop culture references during the course of the trial. He was reprimanded by Judge Douglas Woodlock for referencing the mob movie, "Goodfellas," while cross examining alleged co-conspirator Tony Costa. And when questioning the tax preparer from Liberty Tax Services, he suggested they were the ones with the "Liberty, Liberty, Lib-erty" jingle (they aren't — that's Liberty Mutual insurance). Still, the image of former District Attorney Sam Sutter, who served an abbreviated term as Fall River mayor after the recall of Will...

FALL RIVER — Cliff Ponte is a busy guy. He runs a local real estate group, is president of the Fall River City Council and is about to open a sandwich and coffee shop in the city. But during the past week and a half Ponte has managed, via Zoom, to tune into portions of the federal corruption trial in Boston of former Fall River mayor Jasiel F. Correia II. “I do it in between phone calls and meetings,” he said.   “I multitask,” Ponte said. “I turn the volume up and down to listen.” The District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged Correia, who at age 23 in 20...

For the hundreds of us watching from home, some of the testimony and the defense presented this week have us wondering what's really going on.