Massachusetts sheriff’s deputy Tom Brady fired after allegedly having workers do free plumbing work at his house

A deputy superintendent at an area jail has been fired after he allegedly had workers carry out free plumbing work at his house.

Tom Brady, who has been with the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Workplace since 1996, has been terminated from the division, in response to an workplace spokesperson.

Brady, who was the deputy superintendent on the Home of Correction in Dedham, has been accused by the Massachusetts State Ethics Fee of violating the battle of curiosity regulation.

He allegedly had subordinate sheriff’s workplace upkeep division workers carry out free plumbing work at his house throughout and outdoors of their state work hours.

Final week, the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Workplace despatched Brady a termination discover for “failure to meet expectations and standards.”

His firing was set to enter impact final Friday, and Brady resigned a day earlier than in lieu of his termination.

Brady’s annual base pay hit $138,122 final yr — and he took house greater than $146,000 for the yr with go away purchase again and different pay.

Now within the first 4 months this yr, Brady already took house greater than $138,000 on account of almost $82,000 in go away purchase again.

Based on the State Ethics Fee, Brady allegedly approached sheriff’s workplace plumbers to carry out work at his non-public residence, together with changing a bathe head, changing his water heater, and repairing his boiler. The plumbers carried out this non-public work, largely throughout their state work hours.

Brady allegedly didn’t pay the plumbers for the work at his house, or reimburse the sheriff’s workplace for the worth of the state work time the plumbers used to do that non-public work.

Brady additionally allegedly had a sheriff’s workplace plumber and electrician substitute his boiler’s circulator pump, which they did outdoors of their state work hours. Brady is accused of giving every of them a bottle of wine as a substitute of paying them.

“Each time Brady approached subordinate Sheriff’s Office employees regarding private work at his home, his request was inherently coercive due to his rank and position, the Order alleges,” the State Ethics Fee wrote.

“The Order further alleges that Brady’s actions violated the conflict of interest law’s prohibition against state employees receiving anything of substantial value given to them because of their official position, as well as the law’s prohibition against public employees using or attempting to use their official positions to obtain valuable unwarranted privileges that are not properly available to them,” the Fee added.

The State Ethics Fee has scheduled a listening to for the matter later this month.

Brady was a correction officer till 2021 when he was appointed as assistant deputy superintendent of jail operations on the sheriff’s workplace. Then in 2023, he was promoted to function the deputy superintendent on the Home of Correction in Dedham.