Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins pleaded not guilty to two federal felony charges of extortion at a federal court hearing in Boston Thursday.
“The facts will demonstrate that he was charged with a crime he did not commit,” Martin Weinberg, Tompkins’ attorney, said in brief remarks to the media afterward.
Neither Weinberg nor Tompkins, who wore a blue suit, white shirt and no tie for the hearing, took questions afterward. Tompkins ignored multiple shouted queries about whether he plans to stay in his job as the trial proceeds. But Weinberg may have offered a clue to the answer when he predicted that, in approximately one year, the media gathered for Tompkins’ trial would watch him being found not guilty…