{"id":38040,"date":"2019-09-11T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-marijuana-companies\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:36:21","slug":"massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-marijuana-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-marijuana-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts mayor removed from office for allegedly ripping off marijuana companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts mayor charged with extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from cannabis companies has been temporarily ousted from office. The Fall River City Council voted 8-to-1 on Tuesday night in favor of appointing Council President Cliff Ponte to temporarily replace Jasiel Correia as mayor\u00a0\u201cuntil such a time that the charges against (him) are withdrawn,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-cannabis-companies\/\">Massachusetts mayor removed from office for allegedly ripping off marijuana companies<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-cannabis-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts mayor removed from office for allegedly ripping off marijuana companies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts mayor charged with extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from cannabis companies has been temporarily ousted from office. The Fall River City Council voted 8-to-1 on Tuesday night in favor of appointing Council President Cliff Ponte to temporarily replace Jasiel Correia as mayor\u00a0\u201cuntil such a time that the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/massachusetts-mayor-removed-from-office-for-allegedly-ripping-off-marijuana-companies\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9662,8940,9,6,9663],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38041,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38040\/revisions\/38041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}