United States of America v. Cory Primo

Boston, Massachusetts, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking conspiracy.

From in and around April 2023 until August 2023, Cory Primo, 43, of Fall River, conspired with others to traffic a Massachusetts adult woman and two minors. Primo indicated that she started helping her co-defendant sell the victims because she was “broke.” Primo sent pictures of the victims to sex buyers, communicated with sex buyers to schedule commercial sex acts and negotiated prices. Primo joked about her role in the conspiracy, referring to it as like “playing a game of Tetris.” She also encouraged another co-defendant to be violent toward the victims and expressed indifference to what the victims had to endure, as long as they continued to make money.

United States Attorney Leah B. Foley; Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; and Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New England made the announcement. Valuable assistance was provided by the Somerset Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Riley, Chief of the Human Trafficking & Civil Rights Unit and Trial Attorney Francisco Zornosa of the Criminal Division prosecuted the case.

The Defendant was sentenced to 70 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Primo was also ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution to the three victims in this matter. In August 2025,