A Puerto Rican music producer’s conviction for possessing a machine gun was vacated by the First Circuit, because the government didn’t show he knew the weapon had been modified to fire fully automatically.
Rafael Pina-Nieves owns Pina Records, which produces reggaeton music in Puerto Rico. Pina-Nieves pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2015, which disqualified him from owning guns.
During a money-laundering investigation in 2020, the FBI obtained a wiretap for Pina-Nieves’ phone and intercepted a call between him and an employee doing work on a house that Pina-Nieves owned. The conversation included a discussion about a hidden safe in ...
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