Extortion charges brought against two City Hall officials in connection with the Boston Calling music festival scandal will go forward, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin today refused to dismiss the conspiracy and extortion indictments faced by tourism and entertainment czar Kenneth Brissette and Timothy Sullivan, Mayor Martin J. Walsh's intergovernmental affairs chief, saying, "none of the defendants' arguments merit the extraordinary remedy of dismissal.

"In short," Sorokin wrote in his 11-page denial, "the Court may not grant the relief the defendants seek without intruding on the role of the Grand Jury that returned (the indictments), the petit jury that will evaluate the evidence and find the facts at trial, or both."

Sorokin has ordered that both sides submit a status report on the case to him by next Tuesday.

That report, Sorokin said, is to include "possible dates for the trial in this case."

Brissette and Sullivan have pleaded not guilty to the charges. They are on leave from their posts.

The men are accused of trying to strong-arm Crash Line Productions, the festival's producer, into hiring nine union workers from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 11 in 2014 that the company did not want or need.

The city issued Crash Line the permits it required to stage Boston Calling on City Hall Plaza after the company yielded to Brissette's and Sullivan's demands, according to prosecutors.