Sheriff accused of having extorted $ 50,000 from the Cannabis Executive Cannabis License Program

The sheriff of the Boston sanctuary was arrested on Friday for federal accusations after having pretended to exploit his elected post to extort $ 50,000 to a cannabis manager who was looking for the approval of the State to open a dispensary – a director of the FBI, Kash Patel, called a betrayal of the public trust.

The Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, Steven Tompkins, 67, who oversees more than 1,000 employees in the Boston region, was handcuffed on Friday morning in the southern district of Florida after a large federal jury charged it for two chiefs of extortion under the color of the official law.

“When someone responsible for enforcing the law is accused of having broken it for a personal gain, it undermines the confidence of the public in each honest officer who carries the badge,” Fox News Digital Patel. “The FBI will continue corruption at all levels, because no one is above the law. The people of the County of Suffolk and the country, deserve the leaders who serve them, not themselves.”

Steven Tompkins Steven Tompkins Sheriff was arrested on Friday as part of an illegal license system. (Matt Stone / Medianews Group / Boston Herald via Getty Images)

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Tompkins was appointed sheriff of the Sheriff Department of the County Suffolk (SCSD) in 2013, elected during a special election of 2014, then re -elected to serve as six successive years.

He made the headlines in 2019 after launching immigration and customs’ application agents (ICE) of the county prison, signing an expulsion notice which required hundreds of prisoners of illegal immigrants be moved within 60 days, according to a report of the Boston Herald.

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According to court documents, a cannabis company asked in 2019 a retail dispensary permit in Boston through the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). To meet the requirements of the State’s positive impact plan (PIP), the company has teamed up with the Sheriff department, which agreed to detect and refer graduates of its back -to -school program to work in the dispensary’s retail store.

The company’s partnership with SCSD was formalized in a letter signed by Tompkins in 2019 and submitted with its dispensary license request in 2020. The Cannabis commission approved the license in 2021 and renewed it in 2022 and 2023, the company citing partnership to meet the PIP requirements in each request.

The Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, Steven Tompkins, is accused of having put pressure on a manager of selling him shares, then of requesting a refund. (John Wilcox / Medianews Group / Boston Herald via Getty Images)

To raise capital for an initial public offer (IPO) and develop as a listed company, the managers asked for several million dollars investments from institutions and other investors in Haute Noue – not the general public, according to court documents.

In mid-2010, the company was preparing for its IPO by producing audited financial statements, hiring lawyers and obtaining additional funding.

The prosecutors allege that Tompkins has put pressure on the cannabis executive for the stock, reminding the executive that he had helped the company to his license efforts. The executive feared that Tompkins could use his sheriff to undermine the partnership with the Department, putting both the license and the planned IPO of the company in danger.

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In October 2020, the company asked Tompkins a updated partnership letter to submit with its request for license renewal, according to court documents. In a month following the signature of the letter, and after an alleged pressure on the executive, Tompkins obtained a pre-time participation in the company.

Prosecutors claim that in November 2020, Tompkins wired $ 50,000 from his retirement account to an executive controlled account, buying nearly 29,000 shares at $ 1.73 each. Following an inverted division of shares, it held around 14,400 shares worth $ 3.46 each.

Steven Tompkins Steven Tompkins Sheriff risks up to 20 years in prison for each chief of extortion. (Matt Stone / Medianews Group / Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Once the company launched its IPO in 2021, the value of the action increased to $ 9.60 per share, increasing the value of the purchase of Tompkins to $ 50,000 from 14,417 shares to $ 138,403.

In May 2022, the value of Tompkins shares had dropped thousands of dollars below his $ 50,000 investment, but he would have asked for a full reimbursement. The executive accepted, issuing five checks between May 2022 and July 2023.

Prosecutors claim that certain checks were marked as “loans reimbursement” and “expenditure (of the company)” to Tompkins to hide the nature of some of the payments.

Copies of the checks have shown payments that were reportedly made in Suffolk County sheriff.

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The American lawyer Leah Foley wrote in a press release that elected officials, in particular those who are police, should be ethical, honest and respectful of laws, “no selfish”.

“His alleged actions are an affront to voters and taxpayers who elected her to his post, and the many devoted and honest officials of the Sheriff department of the county of Suffolk. The inhabitants of the county of Suffolk deserve better,” wrote Foley. “Public corruption remains an absolute priority for my administration, and we will continue to investigate and pursue any person who uses their position of confidence and power for their own gain.”

The special agent of the FBI Boston in charge of the TED quays added that the law was a “clear corruption”.

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“Since his very first day as a sheriff of the county of Suffolk, Steven Tompkins has sought to represent himself as a man of the people – a civil servant and a reformer in principle, devoted to the cause of justice. This is why he is beyond the disappointment that he is now accused of playing a system instituted in the interests of public security and the fair,” wrote Doks in a declaration. “We think that sheriff considered to be an easy way to quickly earn money on the sly is clear corruption under federal law. The citizens of the County Suffolk deserve better, not a man accused of negotiating on his position to finance his own political and financial future. Civil servants must be held to the highest ethical standards, and those who are not rooted.”

Tompkins, who risks a sentence of up to 20 years in prison for each charge, will appear before the Boston Federal Court on a later date.