The Boston Globe - 07.09.2019

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Comics, Weather

in Sports, 11-12.

Obituaries in Sports, 10.

Dorian,gray

Saturday

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The hurricane hammered North Carolina’s Outer Banks

with unexpected power, leaving hundreds trapped by

rising waters. As the storm moved north, the Cape braced

for a glancing blow that was still expected to bring high

winds and heavy rain. In Chatham, Dick Hosmer pulled

his boat out at Stage Harbor.Nation/World, 6.

After liberating Zimbabwe, he ruled for decades before

finally being deposed in 2017.Obituary in Sports, 10.

Margaret Atwood talks about what drove her to write a

sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” 34 years later.Good Life.

DORIAN’S LAST PUNCH

CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF

MUGABE DIES AT 95

GOING BACK TO GILEAD

NIC ANTAYA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Fall River Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II declined to say whether he would resign amid the latest scandal.

By Maria Cramer and Felicia Gans
GLOBE STAFF
and Sarah Wu
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Just two days after Fall River Mayor
Jasiel F. Correia II was indicted for alleg-
edly misappropriating investor funds
last fall, one of his aides texted a mari-
juana vendor who was taking too long to
pay a $150,000 bribe to open a pot shop
in the city, federal prosecutors alleged
Friday.
“Just don’t screw the kid,” Correia’s
middleman texted the vendor on Oct.
13, 2018. “He did what he had to do for
you.”

That business, the Giving Tree

Health Center, was one of four prospec-

tive marijuana vendors that Correia ex-

torted for hundreds of thousands of dol-

lars between 2016 and 2019, prosecu-

tors said Friday. Correia, 27, allegedly

used middlemen to wring bribes from

the companies. Some of the extortion

occurred while he was under federal in-

dictment for allegedly stealing more

than $230,000 from investors in his tech

startup, prosecutors said.

“If the allegations in today’s indict-

ment are true, Mayor Correia has en-

gaged in an outrageous, brazen cam-

CORREIA, Page 10

Correia, through a middleman,

allegedly told three marijuana

vendors that each would have

to pay up to $250,000 for

“non-opposition’’ letters

indicating his support for the

business. In July 2018, a

middleman allegedly told one

company that it was “going to

have to start helping [Correia]

out because he is going to

help you,” and another

company gave a middleman

12 to 15 pounds of marijuana.

DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

At Advance Sports Therapy in Wellesley, soccer player Haley Lewis

worked on rehabbing a cartilage tear in her left knee.

By Kay Lazar

GLOBE STAFF

Haley Lewis’s injuries started the

summer before seventh grade with a

left ankle sprain. She’d been playing

soccer nearly nonstop en route to the

state finals with her local Newton

team, while also competing for an in-

tense soccer club.

Then came the fracture in her pel-

vis, from constant kicking. Now, the

16-year-old is rehabbing a cartilage

tear in her left knee; it sidelined her

the entire summer. She hopes to rejoin

her soccer teams later this month.

“I’m in a very competitive environ-

ment,” Lewis said. “Usually I try to

play through [injuries] and I’m not

sure that’s the best thing, but I do.”

Lewis has plenty of company. The

phenomenon of children’s specializing

in one sport at increasingly higher in-

tensities has continued unabated, de-

spite more than a decade of warnings

from physicians and physical thera-

pists about the harm it does to young

bodies. So too, have the fractures,

tears, sprains, and worn-down young

joints.

INJURIES, Page 11

Overuse injuries plague

young, one-sport athletes

Valueofrest,variety

isignoredamidstress

oncompetitiveness

More heat for besieged mayor

CorreiaarrestedonchargesofextortingFallRivermarijuanavendors

By Shelley Murphy
and Danny McDonald
GLOBE STAFF
Federal prosecutors Friday
urged a judge to sentence ac-
tress Felicity Huffman to a
month in jail for her role in the
college admissions bribery
scandal, arguing that her con-
duct was “deliberate and man-

ifestly criminal.”

“In the context of

this case, neither

probation nor home

confinement (in a

large home in the

Hollywood Hills

with an infinity

pool) would consti-

tute meaningful

punishment or de-

ter others from

committing similar

crimes,” prosecutors said in a

sharply worded memorandum

filed in US District Court in

Boston.

Huffman, 56,

who is scheduled

to be sentenced

next Friday, plead-

ed guilty in May to

fraud charges for

paying $15,000 to

a college counselor

who arranged to

have someone

proctor her daugh-

ter’s SAT exam in

2017 and correct her answers

afterward.

“Her efforts weren’t driven

by need or desperation, but by

a sense of entitlement, or at

least moral cluelessness, facili-

tated by wealth and insularity,”

prosecutors wrote. “Millions of

parents send their kids to col-

lege every year. All of them

care as much as she does about

their children’s fortunes. But

they don’t buy fake SAT scores

and joke about it... along the

way.”

In an emotional letter to US

District Judge Indira Talwani,

who is presiding over her case,

HUFFMAN, Page 10

‘MayorCorreiahasengagedinanoutrageous,brazencampaign

toturnhisjobintoapersonalATM,victimizingnotonly

thespecificpeopleinvolved,butalsotheresidentsofFallRiver.’

US ATTORNEY ANDREW E. LELLING

The alleged scheme

Prosecutors urge month in jail for Huffman

Citecriminal

conductin

collegescandal

NAM Y. HUH/NEW YORK TIMES/FILE

The

Cannabis

Control

Commission

sets no

restrictions

on

chemicals

used to

flavor

vaping

products.

By Dan Adams

and Naomi Martin

GLOBE STAFF

As they scramble to pinpoint

the source of a mysterious out-

break of life-threatening lung

ailments related to vaping, fed-

eral health officials have fo-

cused their suspicions on addi-

tives used in illicit marijuana

vaporizer cartridges.

But in Massachusetts, the

state’s otherwise-strict cannabis

regulations impose no over-

sight on additives in regulated

marijuana cartridges sold in li-

censed stores.

While the Cannabis Control

Commission requires tests for

certain contaminants, it sets no

restrictions on ingredients used

to flavor or cut the thick mari-

juana extracts used in vaping

products — the very chemicals

federal officials now fear are

linked to 450 possible cases of

lung illness, including five

deaths, in 33 states.

US health officials have

urged people to stop using the

devices for now.

In Massachusetts, the state

agency also does not regulate

vaping cartridge hardware,

even as lab tests and media re-

ports suggest the heating coils

in some cheap Chinese-made

VAPING, Page 11

State doesn’t regulate

additives to pot vapes

Illnesses,deaths

inUSraisealarm

By Tim Logan

and Milton J. Valencia

GLOBE STAFF

A top aide and close ally of

Mayor Martin J. Walsh is tak-

ing a leave of absence amid a

federal bribery investigation

that has rocked City Hall, the

administration announced

Friday.

William “Buddy” Christo-

pher, who is the mayor’s point

person on the city’s opioid cri-

sis, will step down temporarily

while the city’s lawyers investi-

gate prosecutors’ allegations

of influence-peddling at the

Zoning Board of Appeal.

Christopher previously spent

most of the last five years over-

seeing the city’s Inspectional

Services Department, the

agency that provides staffing

and recommendations on per-

mits and variances to the zon-

ing board.

City documents obtained

by the Globe show that prior

to joining the Walsh adminis-

tration, Christopher was the

original architect for a condo-

minium project on H Street in

South Boston that is at the

center of the bribery probe by

the US attorney’s office. His

son James — who later took

over Christopher’s firm — rep-

resented the developer before

the board in 2017 when a

questionable series of votes

rescued the H Street project

after its permit had expired.

The elder Christopher was

head of inspectional services

at the time of those votes.

Neither Christopher has

been accused of wrongdoing.

The elder Christopher said in a

statement Friday night that he

will step aside while Walsh re-

views the zoning board and its

votes on the H Street project.

“The private sector work I

ZONING BOARD, Page 10

Walsh aide

takes leave

amid probe

Oversawagencytiedtozoningboard

Felicity Huffman

arranged to have

someone proctor

her daughter’s test.

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