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Embattled Suffolk Co. sheriff resigns from community college board

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, who faces a federal extortion indictment, has resigned his post on the Board of ...
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‘Corruption’ or ‘just cheap’? Mixed reactions to sheriff’s extortion charges

Tompkins, who has held the sheriff’s seat for more than a decade, was arrested in Florida last week with federal prosecutors ...

Suffolk Sheriff Tompkins’s office dropped tens of thousands on trips over last year

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department spent tens of thousands of public dollars on hotel, travel, and food expenses during ...

As GOP piles on, Gov. Healey says she needs to ‘know more’ about arrested Suffolk Co. sheriff

"These are serious allegations, but until I have more information, I’m not going to comment on it," Gov. Maura Healey said.

‘Need to get more information’: Healey declines to call for Sheriff Tompkins’s resignation

Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of extortion.

‘He casts a wide swath.’ Sheriff Steven Tompkins has long loomed large in Boston, Democratic political circles

Steven Tompkins’s indictment, and subsequent arrest Friday in Florida, quickly sent reverberations through Boston and ...

Suffolk sheriff joins other Massachusetts public officials who have fallen by the feds

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins joins a slew of public officials who have fallen into disgrace over the past ...