Federal prosecutors in the kickback case of Boston Metropolis Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson say they’ve a lot proof to course of — together with a database of greater than one million information — that they’re looking for an “alternative schedule” to launch it to the protection.
“The government has started preparing to produce discovery and will expedite the production as much as possible. However, given the volume of discovery in this case, including an electronic database containing more than one million files, more time is needed for the completion of automatic discovery,” prosecutors wrote within the movement filed Wednesday.
The movement notes the request was assented to by Fernandes Anderson’s protection workforce.
The federal government proposes that it begins sharing discovery, or proof, with the protection on an “alternative schedule” starting on Jan. 3 and persevering with on a rolling foundation by means of the tip of the month.
“The government will promptly confer with the defendant and counsel and seek modification of the alternative discovery schedule by the Court should complexity and volume of discovery so require,” the movement states.
Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested at her Dorchester residence at round 6 a.m. on Dec. 6 and hauled into federal court docket in Boston to be charged with 5 counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and one depend of aiding and abetting theft regarding a program receiving federal funds.
Fernandes Anderson is accused of hiring a relative to her workers and giving this workers member a beneficiant bonus of $13,000 — however underneath the key situation that $7,000 tax-free of that bonus be kicked again to her. The feds say the money was handed over in a Metropolis Corridor toilet.
She was launched following her arraignment on the situations that she undergo supervision by federal probation officers, give up her passport, not journey outdoors of Massachusetts, don’t have any contact with any witnesses within the case and never use marijuana. Moreover, the situations of launch sheet filed in her case notes that Fernandes Anderson’s son “must remove his firearm and ammunition from the home.”
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