Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II to Be Released from Federal Prison System on July 11

Former mayor Jasiel Correia II will be released from custody of the Bureau of Prisons on Saturday, July 11, according to the federal agency’s inmate database.

Correia, now 34, was the youngest serving mayor in the city’s history after being elected in 2015 at the age of twenty-three after serving on term on the City Council.

He served as mayor from 2016 to 2020 until federal prosecutors successfully indicted him twice, although he managed to avert a recall election amid his mounting legal and political battles.

Correia was indicted first in October 2018 for defrauding seven investors in his start-up company SnoOwl for $360,000 where he spent the investment dollars to pursue “a lavish lifestyle,” that included a Mercedes, expensive trips and jewelry, according to the FBI and federal prosecutors.

And the second time for orchestrating a play-to-play scheme with four accomplices to extort prospective cannabis vendors, looking to do business in the city in the then-newly legalized marijuana industry nearly a year later in September 2019.

It was while Correia was aware he continued to be the target of FBI investigation. 

Prosecutors claimed that in return for the required approval letter from Correia, he shook the men down for hundreds of thousands of dollars, ranging from $75,000 to $250,000. He received the money through his accomplices in cash, and in one instance, a $100,000 check.

Federal prosecutors say Correia extorted about $600,000 in the marijuana scheme.

In May 2021, a Boston federal jury convicted Correia of wire fraud, extortion, conspiracy, and filing false tax returns. Later, Judge Douglas Woodlock acquitted the disgraced former mayor of six of the counts of wire fraud. 

The federal trial was notable, taking place while the COVID-19 epidemic crippled the country. Due to social distance and capacity requirements, the federal court system allowed Correia’s trial to be broadcast. Historically cameras are not allowed in federal court proceedings.

Prison time

In September 2021, Woodlock sentenced Correia to six years in prison and three years of supervised probation. Prosecutors had requested he serve 11 years.

Correia was also ordered to pay $310,240 in restitution to SnoOwl investors, $566,740 in a forfeiture judgement and restitution to the IRS for $20,473.

It’s unlikely that Correia has had the ability to pay the court ordered terms of his conviction.

After several delays, some due to COVID and others, such as Correia unsuccessfully appealed his conviction, he voluntarily entered a federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire in April 2022.

He also fought for early release from prison, but that was also denied.

The BOP would transfer Correia to five other federal prisons, including a brief stay in the notorious federal prison in Brooklyn, New York, until he landed at FCI Ashland in Kentucky in early 2024.

There he remained until August 2025 when he transitioned to “community confinement,” overseen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons Residential Reentry Management program in New York. 

At the time, the BOP would not identify where Correia was spending his community confinement, but over the last 11 months, multiple sources say he is living in Fall River.

Co-conspirators and plea deals

The three of the co-conspirators, Tony Costa, David Hebert and Hildegar Camara, would testify for the prosecution against Correia and pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including lying to investigators. None served prison time, but given a combination of home confinement, supervised probation and fines.

His former chief of staff, Gen Andrade, who did not testify, made a plea deal with the federal government and received time served, home confinement and fined.