June 03, 2022
An architect convicted of giving a Bowflex exercise bike and a luxury Boston hotel stay as bribes to the head of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe said Thursday that trial evidence for that single count was too thin to sustain the jury's guilty verdict.
May 05, 2022
A Massachusetts federal jury convicted the former Mashpee Wampanoag chairman and an architect of some bribery and extortion charges Thursday over an alleged scheme to protect the design firm's multimillion-dollar contract for the tribe's $1 billion casino development.
May 03, 2022
A Boston federal prosecutor turned to a quip from HBO's "The Wire" on Tuesday as the government made its final pitch to a jury that the Mashpee Wampanoag's former chairman had a criminal quid pro quo with the architect he hired for the tribe's proposed $1 billion casino project.
April 28, 2022
Boston federal prosecutors rested their case on Thursday in the Mashpee Wampanoag bribery and extortion case after an FBI agent testified that an architect admitted to giving a tribal chairman about $40,000 in political donations allegedly tied to a casino deal.
April 27, 2022
A key witness in the Mashpee Wampanoag bribery and extortion trial stopped short of testifying Wednesday that the more than $50,000 paid by an architect to the tribe's chairman were necessary to protect a multimillion-dollar casino contract.
April 22, 2022
An architect accused of bribing the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe with $54,000 and luxury gifts to protect his firm's multimillion-dollar casino contract told a Boston federal jury Friday the government's theory of a criminal quid pro quo has a "fatal hole."
October 05, 2021
An architect accused of paying bribes to keep a design contract for a Massachusetts tribal casino urged a federal judge Monday not to muck up his upcoming trial with a co-defendant's tax charges that were previously split off into a separate proceeding.