Page 14 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 CHARGED | FROM Page 4 PUBLIC HEARING Storage of Flammables Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 148, Section 13 of the Massachusetts General Laws that the Revere City Council will conduct a public hearing on Monday evening, August 25, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Councillor Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber of Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, Massachusetts on the application of 791 Broadway, LLC, 78 Mill St., Middleton, MA 01949 requesting a Chapter 148 License from the Revere City Council for aboveground storage of approximately 840 gallons of gasoline contained within 42 vehicles to be parked at ground level of a residential development at 791 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151. City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts, Monday through Thursday from 8:15AM to 5:00PM and on Friday 8:15AM-12:15PM. Proponent/opponent testimony will be accepted in writing via email to amelnik@revere.org on or before August 19, 2025. Attest: Ashley E. Melnik City Clerk August 15, 2025 Tompkins currently serves as the Sheriff for the Suff olk County Sheriff ’s Department (SCSD). He was fi rst appointed Sheriff in 2013, elected as Sheriff in a special election in or about 2014, and thereafter elected to successive six-year terms. As Sheriff , Tompkins oversees approximately 1,000 correctional offi cers and other employees responsible for operating and maintaining correctional facilities in Boston at the House of Correction and the Nashua Street Jail. According to court documents, in 2019, the cannabis company, Company A, sought to open a retail cannabis dispensary in Boston and applied to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) for a dispensary license. To satisfy the Positive Impact Plan (PIP) requirement of the CCC, Company A entered into a partnership with the SCSD whereby the SCSD would help screen and refer graduates of its re-entry program to apply for work at Company A’s retail store. Company A’s partnership with the SCSD was memorialized in a September 2019 letter signed by Tompkins and submitted to the CCC in its completed dispensary license application in or about March 2020. In or about March 2021, the CCC approved a license for Company A to operate a cannabis dispensary in Boston. The CCC later approved license renewal applications for Company A in 2021, 2022 and 2023. In each of the renewal applications, Company A included its ongoing partnership with the SCSD as part of its fulfi llment of the PIP requirement. According to court docu Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 185 of the Acts of 1983, 1. 2. Location Type 3. Attest: Christopher Ciaramella - Chairman of the Traffic Commission August 15, 2025 ” ments, one of Company A’s goals was to raise capital to launch an initial public off ering (IPO) and then continue its growth as a publicly traded company. Company A offi cials, including a company executive identifi ed as Individual A, sought multimilliondollar investments from institutions or other high net-worth, sophisticated investors in order to raise capital. Company A offi - cials, including Individual A, were not looking to raise capital from the general public or small, individual investors. Beginning in or about mid-2020, Company A began preparing for an IPO of Company A stock, which included producing audited fi nancial statements, hiring attorneys to ensure compliance with securities laws and obtaining additional fi nancing from large scale and high net-worth investors, among other things. It is alleged that Tompkins pressured Individual A for stock, reminding Individual A that Tompkins had helped Company A in its Boston licensing eff orts. It is alleged that Individual A believed and feared that Tompkins would use his offi cial position as Sheriff to jeopardize Company A’s partnership with the SCSD and thus imperil both the dispensary license for Company A, as well as the timing of the IPO. In fact, in October 2020, Company A asked Tompkins for an updated partnership letter to submit to the CCC for its yearly renewal of Company A’s Boston license. Within one month of signing the October 2020 SCSD partnership letter with Company A, and after increased pressure on Individual A, Tompkins allegedly obtained a pre-IPO interest in Company A stock after Individual A relented to Tompkins’s demands. In November 2020, Tompkins allegedly wired a $50,000 payment from his retirement account to an account controlled by Individual A. Tompkins paid a pre-IPO price of approximately $1.73 per share of Company A stock (equity equivalent to 28,883 shares), and after a reverse stock split, Tompkins held approximately 14,417 shares at a price of approximately $3.46 per share. According to court documents, in or about mid-2021, when Company A launched its IPO, the stock had a value of approximately $9.60 per share. Thus, Tompkins’s $50,000 purchase of 14,417 shares of Company A stock had appreciated to an approximate value of $138,403. In May 2022, Company A stock decreased in value such that Tompkins’s equity interest in Company A stock was worth several thousand dollars less than the $50,000 he originally invested. However, Tompkins demanded a refund of $50,000 and, despite the decrease in the value of Tompkins’s investment, Individual A agreed to Tompkins’s demands for full repayment of $50,000. Subsequently, from approximately May 2022 to July 2023, Individual A refunded Tompkins’ $50,000 investment by issuing Tompkins fi ve checks. Allegedly in accordance with Tompkins’ wishes, Individual A wrote memos on certain checks that read “loan repayment” and “[company] expense” to disguise the nature of some of the payments. The charges of extortion under color of offi cial right each provide for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case. U.S. Attorney Foley and FBI SAC Docks made the announcement. Special assistance was provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Assistant United States Attorneys John Mulcahy of the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit and Dustin Chao, Chief of the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit, are prosecuting the case. The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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