Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is ready to seem in federal court docket on Thursday to be arraigned on corruption expenses.
Tompkins’s look on the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse within the Seaport was moved from Wednesday to Thursday earlier within the week as a consequence of a “scheduling conflict” famous in court docket information. The preliminary look and arraignment, scheduled for two:30 p.m., would be the sheriff’s first look in Boston court docket in almost two weeks since he was arrested in Florida.
Court docket information present the sheriff will probably be represented by protection legal professional Martin Weinberg, a notable Boston-based lawyer who just lately was part of Karen Learn’s protection staff, on Wednesday.
Tompkins, 67, has been indicted on two counts of extortion underneath colour of official proper for allegedly pressuring an government at a Boston hashish enterprise for inventory within the firm earlier than it was accessible to the general public.
The chief has said he “believed and feared that Tompkins would use his official position as sheriff to jeopardize” the preliminary public providing and the sheriff may impression the corporate’s hashish licensure, federal prosecutors mentioned.
Tompkins purchased $50,000 in pre-IPO inventory, however after the corporate went public and the inventory worth fell, he allegedly demanded the cash again in full. “(D)espite the decrease in the value of Tompkins’s investment, Individual A agreed to Tompkins’s demands for full repayment of $50,000,” prosecutors detailed in an announcement.
Tompkins was arrested in Florida earlier this month and launched on $200,000 bond to journey and face expenses in Massachusetts.
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