Rhode Island Seeks to Revoke Medical Cannabis Operator’s License Over Bribery

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Rhode Island regulators are seeking to revoke the license of medical cannabis operator Colorado Ave LLC after its owner paid a bribe to Jasiel Correia, the disgraced former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts.

Officials in Rhode Island are seeking to revoke the medical cannabis cultivation license of Colorado Ave LLC, which is owned by Brian Bairos – who agreed to pay a bribe to disgraced former Fall River, Massachusetts Mayor Jasiel Correia, WPRI reports. Correia was found guilty earlier this month of extorting cannabis businesses and fraud.

Bairos testified in Correia’s trial that he paid the $150,00 bribe, in return for a non-opposition letter to open a dispensary in the city, in a combination of cash and more than 12 pounds of cannabis to a Correia associate named Tony Costa. Bairos was given immunity in exchange for his testimony.

In a show-cause order issued in February, the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation (DBR) said Colorado Ave failed to ensure the agency access to its real-time camera feeds and failed to appropriately track and trace plants and inventory. The order also says the revocation is due to Colorado Ave’s “failure to uphold its fitness to engage in the medical marijuana industry by Mr. Bairos’ participating in Giving Tree’s extortion.” Giving Tree was the name of his proposed cannabis dispensary in Fall River.

Rhode Island Seeks to Revoke Medical Cannabis Operator’s License Over Bribery

 

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RI seeks to shut down marijuana cultivator who bribed Jasiel Correia

 

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