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For Jasiel Correia, it appears there will be no further delays as the ex-Fall River Mayor is now expected to report to prison on Friday.

After seven continuances following his federal corruption conviction last year, a federal judge Wednesday cleared the way for Correia to report to prison.

Correia was sentenced to six years behind, but his date to report to prison was continuously pushed back for a series of reasons.

He needed to help his family run its restaurant in the run-up to the Christmas holidays.

His former chief-of staff and co-defendant’s case worked its way through the courts.

Amid concern for the risk of contracting Covid behind bars.

While filing an appeal of his convictions for defraud investors in his SnoOwl marketing app, and for shaking down vendors vying to open marijuana dispensaries while he was mayor of Fall River.

Federal Judge Douglas Woodcock Wednesday signed off on a probation department request that Correia be allowed to have his GPS ankle tracker removed at the federal Probation Office before reporting Friday to a federal prison at Berlin, New Hampshire.