A visit to the Bahamas and one other to a resort in Florida, stops at excessive finish eating places and time at Prime Golf – these are among the many purchases made utilizing the procurement card assigned to the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Workplace in fiscal 2025.
In keeping with the State Comptrollers Workplace, it’s the duty of division heads to supervise using their state issued procurement credit score traces, or P-cards. A overview of spending information obtained by the Herald present the cardboard or playing cards assigned to Sheriff Steven Tompkins’ workplace have been used to spend at the least $133,282.09 in fiscal 2025.
Tompkins was arrested and charged with a pair of felonies associated to an alleged extortion scheme on Friday whereas in Florida. The Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t return a request for touch upon why the sheriff was in Florida.
Nonetheless, a overview of the Division’s spending exhibits it’s not the primary journey to the Sunshine State that Tompkins or another person inside his division remodeled the course of the final fiscal 12 months.
What the info exhibits
Among the many earliest transactions within the fiscal 2025 spending information launched to the Herald are a pair of bills for Mohegan Solar, the on line casino resort positioned in Connecticut. In keeping with state information, the sheriff’s workplace P-card account was used to twice spend $143.75 there in July of final 12 months, and as soon as extra for $724.70 in October.
The following month, August, the taxpayers have been billed $5,329.95 for 5 transactions labeled as for The Drury Inn, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Drury Plaza Resort, because it’s formally known as, is discovered “in the heart of the Big Easy, just steps from the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, Canal Street, the Riverwalk, Caesar’s Superdome, and Smoothie King Center.”
Whereas there, somebody spent $668.31 on the Creole Home Restaurant & Oyster Bar.
Additionally in August, the cardboard was used to ship $500 to the Congressional Black Caucus Basis, and for $179.55 value of products from Luberto’s Pastry Store in Revere. Later that very same month, bookings on the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans value the taxpayers $5,405.25 throughout 4 transactions.
September of 2024 began off with a $901.20 buy from Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse within the Seaport. It will need to have been a good expertise, as a result of the cardboard was used there the next April for an additional transaction value $254.72.
October noticed a pair of room reservations made at $757.36 every at Caesar’s Paris Las Vegas Resort & On line casino, with a further $30.08 spent on the “casino front desk.”
5 days later $303.82 was spent on every of two rooms on the Courtyard Lenox Berkshires, in Lenox, and 5 days after that $106.12 was charged for every of two transactions on the Sturbridge Host Resort & Convention Heart. $280.60 extra was charged in Sturbridge the next day.
In November 2024, the Sheriff’s Workplace spent $1,787.95 on their P-Card at Prime Golf in Canton. They clearly had fun, as a result of they spent one other $1,787.95 there the subsequent month in December. Additionally in November, $6,515.25 was spent on the five-star Liberty Resort in Boston.
The New Yr noticed a pair of transactions at a Marriott lodge in Washington D.C. value a complete of $2,101.02.
On varied dates in March, April, and Might of 2025, the P-card was used for eight transactions with the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida, totaling $3,847.65. The lodge is “the ultimate South Florida luxury resort,” in accordance with the corporate’s description of its property.
Additionally in March, 5 transactions of $548 have been made on the Harbor View Resort — one other five-star expertise — in Edgartown on Martha’s Winery, totaling $2,490 in spending. Across the similar time, the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, Maryland was booked on the P-card via 5 transactions totaling $2,841.99.
In April, the P-card was used to spend $922.00 at The Pearl South Bay, a seafood restaurant in Dorchester.
Weeks later, the cardboard was used for six transactions on the Margaritaville Seaside Resort, in Nassau, Bahamas. That journey value the taxpayers $6,525.09, of which $1,985.76 is labelled as for “eating places, restaurants.”
The state’s guidelines on P-card expressly name out and forbid utilizing the cardboard for “cost of meals, snacks, or coffee (whether during travel or otherwise).”
Regardless of that, in fiscal 2025 the sheriff’s workplace P-card was used to spend $2,194.00 on the Brockton Meat Market, $2,000 on a caterer known as “Everybody Gotta Eat;” $890.67 at varied Dunkin Donuts places in Boston and Brockton; $158.36 and $184.22 in two transactions at Felcaro Pizzeria; and three transactions of $225.63, $155.55, and $92.07 on the Andrew Sq. Home of Pizza.
The cardboard was additionally used to spend $9,424.77 on JetBlue airfare and flight upgrades, $6,108.26 on Delta flights and upgrades, $10,026.10 on varied purchases with Amazon, and $6,217.80 twice for Zoom enterprise companies.
Tompkins is due in federal courtroom in Boston on Friday. He stays the Sheriff of Suffolk County regardless of his indictment and in addition serves as chairman of the Roxbury Neighborhood School Board of Trustees.
His workplace didn’t return a request for a proof of their spending.
Initially Printed:
