UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA )
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v. ) Criminal No. 18-10364-DPW
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JASIEL F. CORREIA II, )
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 Defendant )
GOVERNMENT’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO CONTINUE
SURRENDER DATE

Beginning in January 2013, at the age of 21, Jasiel Correia was ready to start stealing
hundreds of thousands of dollars from his friends and fellow citizens of Fall River.

 

 In February
2015, at the age of 23, Jasiel Correia was ready to start defrauding the IRS out of tens of thousands
of dollars in taxes he owed. 

By July 2016, at the age of 24, Jasiel Correia was ready to start
extorting Fall River business owners for hundreds of thousands of dollars – a corrupt practice that
he continued throughout his mayoral term. Come December 3, 2021, now approaching 30 years
of age, Jasiel Correia is ready to start serving his prison sentence.

 

To date, Correia has not paid back any of his defrauded investors and friends. To date,
Correia has not paid back any of the taxes that he still owes. And to date, Correia has not paid
back any of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash bribes that he grabbed from marijuana
businesses all those years.

 

Instead of repaying any of his debts, Correia asks to remain at liberty
to provide what he calls “critical assistance to his family’s small business through the busy holiday
season,” Def. Mot at 1 (ECF No. 347), but what the Fall River press has more accurately described
as “very likely the most expensive restaurant in Fall River.”1

1 See https://www.heraldnews.com/story/news/courts/2021/09/14/fact-check-contextclaims-jasiel-correia-sentencing-memo-fall-river-mayor-corruption-fraud-defense/8329587002/
(“A glance at the Douro Steakhouse menu reveals a $42 eight-ounce filet mignon, a $75 ribeye,
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Unsurprisingly, the only person Correia is prepared to pay is himself. A thirty-day
extension is unnecessary to rehash arguments that the defendant has raised previously in seeking
bail pending appeal (ECF No. 328), and which the government dismisses (ECF No. 317). In a
case where this Court has called Correia’s conduct “the most fundamentally corrosive crime a
community faces,” it’s time for Jasiel Correia to pay his debt to society and the citizens of Fall
River. Therefore, and for all the foregoing reasons, the government opposes defendant’s Motion
to Continue Surrender Date (ECF No. 347).

Respectfully submitted,
NATHANIEL R. MENDELL
Acting United States Attorney