(Courtesy: Boston Herald) – U.S. Attorney Leah Foley has become the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s worst nightmare.
Foley nabbed yet another powerful Democratic elected official on Friday, indicting longtime Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins for extorting a Boston cannabis company executive.
Tompkins, who has loomed large on the Boston political scene, allegedly demanded a $50,000 “pre-equity interest” in the cannabis company right before it went public with an IPO, according to Foley’s office.
“His alleged actions are an affront to taxpayers who elected him to his position, and the many dedicated and honest public servants at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department,” Foley said in a statement.
Tompkins is the most prominent Democrat in a string of indictments that Foley has secured this year, including Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson on a bribery charge and state Rep. Chris Flanagan on wire fraud.
(View More: https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/08/08/battenfeld-another-powerful-democrat-nabbed-by-u-s-attorney-leah-foley/)
(View DOJ Press Release: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/suffolk-county-sheriff-steven-tompkins-indicted-alleged-extortion)
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