Good day all. Massachusetts is a one party state under the control of the Democrat Party. It has been for years, with the expected results. One of those results is corruption by people in power. Recently one of these people was criminally charged and arrested on extortion charges.
What makes this worse, is that this wasn’t just some Leftard hack office holder. It was the sheriff of Suffolk County. Here are the details from Fox News:
Boston’s sanctuary sheriff was arrested Friday on federal charges after allegedly leveraging his elected position to extort $50,000 from a cannabis executive who was seeking state approval to open a dispensary—a scheme FBI Director Kash Patel called a betrayal of public trust.
I’ve done a bit of digging on this man and found out why he was referred as a “Sanctuary sheriff.” This jerk canceled a contract with ICE regarding Illegal Aliens and has been releasing basically dangerous criminals who should have been booted from the country. There was talk about charging him for that, however, it looks like they found something else to hit him with.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, 67, who oversees more than 1,000 employees in the Boston-area, was handcuffed Friday morning in the Southern District of Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of extortion under color of official right, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Florida? What was he doing in Florida? I would have thought they would have taken him into custody in Massachusetts.
“When someone entrusted with enforcing the law is accused of breaking it for personal gain, it undermines the public’s trust in every honest officer who wears the badge,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “The FBI will pursue corruption at every level, because no one is above the law. The people of Suffolk County, and the country, deserve leaders who serve them, not themselves.”
Do I need to go into how this is what happens when you have what amounts to single party rule throughout a state? Add to that, most Democrats literally think they are above the law.
Tompkins was appointed sheriff of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD) in 2013, elected in a 2014 special election, and later re-elected to serve successive six-year terms.
I don’t follow elections in Mass to that level, so I assume the previous sheriff left office for some reason and Tompkins was appointed to fill his term. Fairly standard stuff. As to being elected and reelected? In the Northeast Sheriff elections don’t hold the same level of importance that they do in the south and western parts of the United States. No one really pays attention to who’s running for the position.
He made headlines in 2019 after booting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out of the county jail, signing an eviction notice that required hundreds of illegal immigrant detainees to be moved out within 60 days, according to a report from the Boston Herald.
That was during the first Trump administration. Basically this tool was trying to show his progressive “The Hell with America” leftard chops. After the Tainted Election of 2020, he probably thought that he was untouchable, and of course, under the Garland/BidenDoJ, he was. Then came the landslide reelection of President Trump and things began changing.
According to court documents, a cannabis company applied in 2019 for a retail dispensary license in Boston through the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). To meet the state’s Positive Impact Plan (PIP) requirement, the company partnered with the sheriff’s department, which agreed to screen and refer graduates from its re-entry program for work at the dispensary’s retail store.
I don’t know anything about the legalization of Marijuana in Massachusetts and honestly, don’t care. I don’t use that crap and never have. Still, this all looks straightforward enough. It looks like, according to the Fox story, the license was renewed several times over the years, all referring to the PIP requirement. At this point, the company running the “Pot Shop” decided to go public.
To raise capital for an initial public offering (IPO) and expand as a publicly traded company, executives sought multimillion-dollar investments from institutions and other high-net-worth investors—not the general public, according to court documents.
Again, this is all pretty standard stuff. So what was the problem and what did Sheriff Tompkins allegedly do?
Prosecutors allege Tompkins pressured the cannabis executive for stock, reminding the executive he had helped the company in its licensing efforts. The executive feared Tompkins might exploit his position as sheriff to undermine the partnership with the department, putting both the license and the company’s planned IPO in jeopardy.
In October 2020, the company asked Tompkins for an updated partnership letter to submit with its license renewal application, according to court documents. Within a month of signing the letter, and after alleged pressure on the executive, Tompkins obtained a pre-IPO stake in the company.
Yep, that would do it. Just asking to be a part of the IPO would have smelled to high heaven and I have no doubt that the Partners putting together the IPO wouldn’t even have offered anything to Tompkins. It literally reeks of potential bribery and conflicts of interest if they had.
Prosecutors claim that in November 2020, Tompkins wired $50,000 from his retirement account to an account controlled by the executive, purchasing nearly 29,000 shares at $1.73 each. Following a reverse stock split, he held about 14,400 shares valued at $3.46 each.
Well, at least he didn’t just demand shares be handed to him with no money changing hands, but, again, this would have been an ethical mess looking for a place to happen. I’m not even sure if the whole thing had been public information and totally above board, the State would have told Tompkins no.
Once the company launched its IPO in 2021, the stock value jumped to $9.60 per share, increasing the value of Tompkins’ $50,000 purchase of 14,417 shares to $138,403.
That’s when you should sell. The initial opening price per share will go up at first, but then drop down as the initial investors cash out and people start actually looking into the financials, and this is what happened to Tompkins.
By May 2022, the value of Tompkins’ stock had dropped thousands of dollars below his $50,000 investment, but he allegedly demanded a full refund. The executive agreed, issuing five checks between May 2022 and July 2023.
Prosecutors claim some checks were marked as “loan repayment” and “[company] expense” at Tompkins’s direction to disguise the nature of some of the payments.
You know, there are times I think I should listen to the Howie Carr Show again. I got busy in real life and moved on. Without question, this is going to be something he’s going to be talking about for a while. He loves these sorts of scandals.
U.S. Attorney Leah Foley wrote in a statement that elected officials, particularly those in law enforcement, are expected to be ethical, honest and law-abiding, “not self-serving.”
Since when?
Tompkins, who faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison for each count, will appear in Boston federal court at a later date.
I wonder if this “Alleged Turd” is going to resign or of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Democrats) will start the process to remove him from office? I also won’t be surprised if there isn’t a major investigation of all the deputies in Suffolk County. As the old saying goes, “The Fish Rots From the Head.”
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