mayor given 6-year prison sentence

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BUNKING WITH KNIGHT AND CARAVIELLO : Ex-Fall River mayor sentenced to six years in prison for ‘old-school’ corruption

By Shelley Murphy and John R. Ellement Globe Staff,Updated September 21, 2021, 3:27 p.m.

The sentence capped a remarkable fall for Correia, whose meteoric rise to become mayor at 24 descended into greed and corruption that Woodlock likened to notorious Boston Mayor James Michael Curley. Known as the “Rascal King,” Curley was sentenced to 6 to 18 months in prison for mail fraud in the 1940s while serving as mayor and was pardoned by President Harry Truman after he spent five months behind bars.

After illegally taking a civil service exam for a constituent, Curley campaigned on the slogan, “I did it for a friend.” For Correia, an appropriate slogan would be “I did it to a friend,” Woodlock said.

Woodlock said Correia got away with swindling friends who invested in SnoOwl, a smartphone app he helped create while in college, then used his position as mayor from 2016 to 2019 to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from businessmen who needed his approval to open marijuana dispensaries in Fall River.

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