A federal choose rescheduled an preliminary look and arraignment for Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins from Wednesday to Thursday, or almost two weeks after he was arrested in Florida on corruption costs, in line with courtroom information.
A courtroom clerk stated the listening to was moved attributable to a “scheduling conflict.” Tompkins is about to seem earlier than Justice of the Peace Choose M. Web page Kelly at 2:15 p.m. contained in the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse within the Seaport, courtroom information stated.
Federal prosecutors have accused Tompkins of pressuring an govt at a Boston hashish enterprise for inventory within the firm earlier than it was set to launch an preliminary public providing, together with by reminding the person who he helped the corporate in its Boston licensing efforts.
After Tompkins obtained pre-IPO inventory and the corporate went public, the sheriff’s holdings decreased in worth, and Tompkins “allegedly demanded a refund of $50,000 and, despite the decrease in the value of Tompkins’s investment, Individual A agreed to Tompkins’s demands for full repayment of $50,000,” prosecutors stated in a press release.
Tompkins didn’t have an lawyer listed in courtroom information as of Monday morning, and repeated makes an attempt to succeed in a spokesperson on the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Division have been unsuccessful.
A federal grand jury indicted Tompkins, 67, on two counts of extortion underneath colour of official proper. A federal choose in Florida launched him on a $200,000 bond earlier this month and ordered him to journey to Massachusetts to face proceedings within the Bay State.
Earlier Herald supplies have been used on this report.
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