Any elected official sentenced to state or federal prison time is deemed to have vacated their seat, according to state law.

Foley, who oversees DOJ operations in Massachusetts, secured her third indictment of an elected Democrat this year with the arrest of Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, a Democrat who has held the ...

Tompkins got his start the way most future jailbird Democrat sheriffs get their start. He was another Democrat hack pol’s ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested on federal extortion charges after allegedly pressuring a cannabis ...

New federal charges were added to a sanctuary sheriff’s record of corruption as a grand jury indictment prompted his arrest for alleged extortion. Friday in the Southern […] ...

A federal indictment alleges that Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins extorted a cannabis company to give him a ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins faces federal extortion charges involving the purchase of an equity interest in a ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins was arrested this morning in Florida on federal charges that he extorted a Boston ...

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is accused of extorting a cannabis company executive. He was arrested in Florida ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been charged with extortion for his alleged dealings with a Boston-based cannabis ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins of Boston was taken into custody in Florida in connection with extortion charges that ...