Sheriff accused of extorting $50K from cannabis executive in licensing scheme

Sherif Malaz Boston was arrested on Friday for federal accusation after his position, elected to blackmail $ 50,000 from the executive official who was seeking to obtain the approval of the state to open a dispensary – FBI planning Cash Patel called betrayal of public trust.

Hands were caught in Suffolk County, Sherif Stephen Thompsipz, 67, who oversees more than 1,000 employees in the Boston region, on Friday morning in the southern province of Florida after the Federal Grand jury had charged him with two charges of extortion under the official oath, according to a statement from the American Prosecutor’s Office for the similar area.

“When someone in charge of enforcement of the law is accused of violating personal gains, he undermines the confidence of the public in every honest officer wearing the badge,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “The FBI will follow corruption at every level, because there is no one above the law. The people of Suffolk, the country, the leaders who serve them, not themselves, deserves.”

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TOMPKINS was appointed as Sharif Manager SCSD in 2013, and he was elected in special elections 2014, and he was later re -elected to serve six consecutive years.

He received newspaper headlines in 2019 after the operation of immigration and customs enforcement customers (ICE) from the province’s prison, and the signing of the evacuation requires the transfer of hundreds of illegal immigrant detainees within 60 days, according to a report issued by Boston Herld.

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According to the court documents, a hemp company applied in 2019 to obtain a retail closer license in Boston through the Massachusetts Committee (CCC). To meet the requirements of the positive influence plan for the state (PIP), the company has made a partnership with the Sharif Department, which agreed to examine the graduates from the re -entering the retail store in the store in the clinic.

The official nature was added to the company’s partnership with SCSD in a message signed by TOMPKINS in 2019 and submitted with a clinic license request in 2020. The cannabis committee agreed to the license in 2021 and renewed it in 2022 and 2023, with the company’s martyrdom in partnership to meet PIP requirements in each application.

Sherif County, Suffolk Stephen Tombins, is accused of pressing an executive official to sell him to the shares and then demand the recovery of the funds. (John Wilcox/Medianews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

To collect capital for a preliminary public offer (IPO) and expand as a company circulating for the public, executive officials have sought millions of dollars investments from institutions and other high-value investors-not the general public, according to court documents.

By mid -2012, the company was preparing for public subscription by producing audited financial statements, employing lawyers and obtaining additional financing.

Prosecutors claim that Tombins have been pressuring the CEO of cannabis to shares, to remind the executive authority that he helped the company in licensing efforts. The Executive Director is afraid that Tombins may use his position as a police station to undermine the partnership with the department, which puts both the license and the planned public subscription to the company in danger.

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In October 2020, the company asked TOMPKINS an updated partnership letter to submit it with a license renewal request, according to court documents. Within a month of signing the message, and after the alleged pressure on the executive authority, TOMPKINS got a share before the company’s public subscription.

Prosecutors claim that in November 2020, Tombins delivered $ 50,000 from his retirement account to an account controlled by the CEO, who bought nearly 29,000 shares at $ 1.73 each. After the opposite stocks split, about 1,4400 shares were occupied at a value of $ 3.46 each.

Suffolk Sharif Stephen Tombins County faces imprisonment for up to 20 years for each mission of blackmail. (Matt Stone/Medianews Group/Boston Heerad via Getty Images)

Once the company launched the public subscription in 2021, the shares value jumped to $ 9.60 per share, which increased the value of the Tombins purchase of $ 50,000 at a value of 14,417 shares to 138,403 dollars.

By 2022, the value of the Tombins shares decreased to thousands of dollars without its investment of $ 50,000, but it claims that it requested a full recovery. The Executive Director agreed, as she issued five checks between May 2022 and July 2023.

Prosecutors claim that some checks were distinguished as “loans’ payment” and “[company] Expenses “in the direction of Tombins to hide the nature of some payments.

Copies of checks that are claimed to be paid to the sheriff of Sofolk Province.

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American lawyer Leah Foley wrote in a statement that elected officials, especially law enforcement officials, are expected to be ethical, honest and committed to the law, “not self -service.”

“His alleged actions are an insult to the voters and taxpayers who elected him in his position, and many public and honest public officials in the Sherif County District. The people of Suffolk County deserve the best.” “Public corruption is still a top priority for my administration, and we will continue to investigate and prosecute anyone who uses the position of confidence and power to achieve their own gains.”

FBI Boston Complex Ted Docks added that the action was “clear corruption.”

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“Since his first day as Sharif Suffolk Province, Stephen Tombins has sought to portray himself as a man – a government employee and a reformer, devoted to the issue of justice. For this reason, it exceeds disappointing that he is now accused of games of a system that was placed in the public safety interest and fair play in a statement.“ We believe that what Sharif considered an easy way to make a quick bak on the horse is a clear corruption under the law Federal. Citizen of Suffolk County deserves the best, and not the man accused of trading in his position of financing his own political and financial future.

Tombkins, who faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years for each number, will appear at the Boston Federal Court at a later time.