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Indicted Sheriff Steven Tompkins and Israel

Background

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was recently indicted by the feds. Allegedly, he shook down a cannabis company.

The Boston Globe was able to identify the victim based on "Tompkins’s annual financial disclosures." You can look up those disclosures yourself using my Massachusetts SFI and Disclosure Database. The Cannanovus company named in the Globe article is listed in Tompkins' 2021 statement.

I recently got a big dump of disclosures from the State Ethics Commission. These are in addition to the Statements of Financial Interest (SFI) that were already in the database.

So, I did some searching on this Tompkins character, and found out that he really loves getting free trips from the Israel lobby.

The Disclosures

A search of the database for "tompkins" filtered to just show conflict-of-interest disclosures gives 13 hits.

Some of the matching documents:

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.08(2)(d)2_disclosure_8.7.23.pdf

I will be participating in the African American Leadership Seminar sponsored by the National Black Empowerment Council (NBEC) in Israel.

Payer: NBEC
Total: Unknown

This NBEC organization seems to be some sort of pro-Israel propaganda group.

I found a movie of one of these trips from 2025. It is absolutely deranged.

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.082d2_disclosure_3.5.2020.pdf

I will be traveling to Washington DC to speak at this spring's AIPAC Policy Conference. I will also attend the conference.

Payer: AIPAC
Total: $1,458.81

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.082d2_disclosure_3.25.19.pdf

I will be traveling to Washington DC to attend AIPAC's Policy Conference 2019.

Payer: AIPAC
Total: $1,924.13

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.082d2_disclosure_9.14.18.pdf

I will be travelling to Washington DC to attend AIPAC's Policy Conference.

Payer: AIPAC
Total: $1,110.20

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.082d2_disclosure_2.20.18.pdf

I will be travelling to Washington DC to attend AIPAC's Policy Conference 2018.

Payer: AIPAC
Total: $1,864.30

Tompkins,Steven_10.6.17-_CMR_5.08(2)(d)2.pdf

I will be travelling to the New England Progressive Leaders Education Seminar, a multi-day program conducted with the Israel Defense Forces, members of the Knesset, the Counterterrorism Bureau, and others.

Payer: American Israel Education Foundation
Total: $11,982.51

Tompkins,_Steven_930CMR5.082d2_disclosure_2016-03-07.pdf

To attend the Alternative Sentencing Key Stakeholder Summit in Washington, DC

Payer: The Aleph Institute (summit organizer)
Total: $1,700

This summit was not explicitly related to Israel.

2015/TompkinsSteven.pdf

The Massachusetts Counter-Terrorism Seminar in Israel is an annual intensive training program conducted in cooperation with the Israel National Police. The individuals who are invited to apply for this training are leaders of police departments, correctional systems, medical facilities, regional offices of federal law enforcement, and prosecutors.

Payer: Massachusetts Anti-Defamation League
Total: $3,000