Overview

• Court records show his Boston arraignment was pushed back one day to Thursday because of a scheduling conflict, after his arrest in Florida and release on a $200,000 bond.
• Tompkins faces a federal count of attempted extortion under the Hobbs Act.
• Prosecutors say he leveraged a required reentry partnership tied to cannabis licensing to pressure the company under threat of ending the arrangement.
• When the investment lost value, prosecutors allege he demanded repayment, and the company returned $50,000 in five installments between May and October 2022.
• The indictment does not name the company, though a person familiar with the matter identified it as Ascend Mass, part of Ascend Cannabis.