BOSTON — The federal government's criminal prosecution against Jasiel Correia II received a fifth continuance last week and the case is now in the hands of a Massachusetts District Court judge who will likely proceed over the mayor’s trial.

A new date for a pretrial conference before a district judge has been set for June 25 at 2 p.m. Correia is facing 13 federal counts of wire and tax fraud connected to SnoOwl, the Smartphone app he developed before he was elected mayor in 2015.

Correia was due back in a Boston federal courtroom June 3. However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabel received a joint motion filed by the mayor's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, and Assistant U. S. Attorneys Zachary Hafer and David Tobin.

The attorneys requested the postponement and a pre-trial conference set before the district judge to resolve any pre-trial motions and to schedule a trial date.

Correia hasn’t appeared in court since his arrest and arraignment Oct. 11, 2018, at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where he pleaded not guilty and was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond.

A federal grand jury handed down an indictment after an 18-month investigation by the FBI, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the IRS.

After Correia’s arraignment, the federal prosecutors handed over 18,256 pages of discovery. A magistrate judge granted a protective order of the evidence.

Cabel’s court filing dated May 31 indicates that the discovery portion of the case is complete, no discovery motions had been filed and none are anticipated.

The attorneys have estimated that if Correia’s case goes to trial, it would last no more than two weeks.

Email Jo C. Goode at jgoode@heraldnews.com.