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Boston Calling extortion case to go to trial next week
Final pre-trial hearing today
The jury trial for two of Mayor Martin Walsh’s City Hall lieutenants facing extortion charges will resume July 22, after a final pretrial conference Monday.
Kenneth Brissette, the city’s tourism chief, and Timothy Sullivan, chief of staff of intergovernmental relations, are facing extortion charges under the Hobbs Act for allegedly bullying Crash Line Productions, a concert organizer, into hiring unneeded union labor for the 2014 Boston Calling music festival at City Hall Plaza.
City Hall public corruption case could be headed ... - The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/28/city...corruption-case.../story.html
Mar 28, 2019 - A federal appeals court vacated the dismissal of public corruption charges against two Boston City Hall aides Thursday, holding that a judge ...
Jul 15, 2019 - The jury trial for two of Mayor Martin Walsh's City Hall lieutenants facing ... and cross-examination about another corruption case in their trial.